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Re: Using "period instruments" for early 20th century music

Author: fskelley
Date: 2014-07-23 16:59

Back in the 1970's I worked for Westinghouse doing engineering on nuclear power plants. Not to start that whole controversy here... but the NRC required us to "permanently" archive all the computer software and data used in the calculations. So somewhere there's a salt mine with a cache of 1970's computer tapes, punch cards, listings, and microfilm. All you'd need to get those going again is a 1977 computer and all accessories, and a dozen or so people fresh from 1977. Or to say it another way- it cannot be done. And we knew that in 1977, but you do what you're told to do.

So- you can never really do music "like in 1850" or even "like in 1950". It's always an approximation, sometimes better than others. Kind of like you can't go home again. :-(

Stan in Orlando

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