Klarinet Archive - Posting 000427.txt from 2005/01

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: Edison recordings
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:10:24 -0500

Bill Hausmann wrote:

> Now that is an inexcusable error. Certainly they can adjust the
> playback speed to be correct. Early disk phonographs had speed
> controls as a matter of course, as the 78rpm speed was common, but
> hardly standard, until the electrical recording era. I have a
> computer program that has digital filters to clean up old recordings,
> and it can also compensate for incorrect playback speeds.

It's hardly an "error". It seems important to me to preserve these
recordings *as they exist* without alterations. They're historical
documents and should be respected as such.

What Ed's requesting is something different which is that *in addition*
there should be versions altered to try to recapture the acoustic
sound. I think that's a good idea, but I would strongly reject any
suggestion that this should be the *only* version released.

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