Klarinet Archive - Posting 000138.txt from 2008/12

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Vincent J. Abato - A Gift for the New Year
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:31:25 -0500

For those of us who grew up with wow, flutter and variable speed
turntables, Adam's posting certainly offers a peek down memory
lane. Over Christmas we shot another video of my granddaughter on
piano and me on clarinet playing a little ditty together for an
upcoming DVD which I will burn of the event. With a tiny audio
transducer on the camera, the sound on the .avi and .mov files came
through with no time-dependent distortion thanks to the wonder of
audio sampling. The tone is another matter and one really needs, at
the very least, a couple of good dynamic microphones plugged into the
camera so that the clarinet tone loses some of its harsh quality
characteristic of the output of cheap microphones.

In the olden days people who worried about variable speed turntables
made sure that the stroboscope pattern around the edge was stationary
before playing a record. Wow and flutter were another matter --
damnable demons always lurking about and ready to ruin the playback
of one's favorite recording.

Thanks for the memories, Adam.

Oliver

At 03:49 AM 12/29/2008, you wrote:
>Multi-generation amateur tape recordings of a one off radio broadcast
>that were passed among collectors for almost 40 years.
>
> -Adam

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