Klarinet Archive - Posting 000418.txt from 2001/08

From: HatNYC62@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Recording Methods
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:11:12 -0400

In a message dated 8/27/01 4:14:54 AM, klarinet-digest-help@-----.org writes:

<< I'm also listening to "Clarinet Classics" re-issue of
the original Neilsen recordings, Concerto by Louis
Cahuzac and Quintet and Serenata in Vano with Aage
Oxenvad himself. These guys sound great, I can't
believe they got the clarinet sound full and not
sounding like the players were recording into that
oversize bullhorn they used to use. >>

Just for the record, these are not acoustical recordings. If I remember
correctly, these recordings are from the 1940s. Acoustical recording methods,
which used the bullhorn or funnel shaped recording pickups, were supplanted
around 1925 (depending on the country) by microphones and amplifiers, just
like we use today. In either case, acoustical or electrical, they used 78
rpm discs for the master takes. Each side lasted about 4 1/2 minutes and no
splicing was possible within a side.

David Hattner, NYC
www.northbranchrecords.com

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