Klarinet Archive - Posting 000067.txt from 2007/10

From: "Scott Morrow" <scottdmorrow@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: the effect of technology
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:11:10 -0400

In 2002, National Public Radio ran an interesting series on how technology
has affected music.
Here's the link, for whoever is interested!
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/technopop/index.html#stories
-Scott

>
>Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 23:01:07 +0100
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>From: "Keith Bowen" <bowenk@-----.com>
>Subject: RE: [kl] Re: the effect of technology
>Message-ID: <001a01c8092d$911d8b70$0502a8c0@KEITHIBM>
>
>It was perfectly usual. A very well-documented case is that of Edward
>Elgar,
>one of the first major composers to take recording seriously. The first
>classical recordings were hacked mercilessly; for example, Elgar cut most
>of
>the introduction to his violin concerto completely out for the first
>recording by Marie Hall in 1916. Other distortions abound, for example a
>full orchestra was too large to fit in front of an acoustic horn so was
>greatly cut down, and sometimes a tuba was used instead of a double bass to
>make it heard. The "Kone Violin" (with an acoustic horn added to the
>soundboard) was invented to produce more sound. Singers were at times
>mounted on movable platforms, and physically pushed back and forth to be at
>the right distance from the horn. Things improved with the introduction of
>the microphone and electrical recording in 1925, as seen by the 16 year old
>Menuhin's recording of the Elgar concerto in 1926.

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