[78-L] Orville Knapp

[Royal Pemberton]

The $7 Victor record of the 'Sextet' from LUCIA has 'Speed 82' printed
on the label.

Undoubtedly Victor and Gramophone/EMI both had varispeed playback
turntables in use by the time they began doing electrical overdubbings
on Caruso and other records, so as to match the original recordings to
what was being overdubbed.   Surely the playback and recording
turntables ran at the same speed for that Lawrence Tibbett material
(which I don't have and have never heard), and later for the Sidney
Bechet multiple (which I do have).

I was quite surprised to learn here via Chris Zwarg recently how quite
often dubbings for reissues in the 78 era were even further off-speed
than the originals were!  One would have thought they'd have tried to
play the originals back as accurately in speed as they could, so at
least the music would be pitch-accurate going into the dubbing
recorder.

On 10/14/08, J.F. Bennett <citypointsb at gmail.com> wrote:
> DL,
>
>   Oh there must have been a few nuts like us back then. In Old Blighty E.M.
> Ginn was making a go of it in the early thirties was it? His market was the
> audiophile wasn't it? I assume the folks who bought his Gramophones were
> interested in proper playback. Yet In the short time I've been in the hobby
> I don't ever recall mention of discussions of proper speeds or improved
> playback in the era of the acoustic talking machine or the very ealry
> electric era.
>   If by the mid to late thirties there were clubs and societies involved
> with re-issues of early acoustic Operatic (mostly) recordings ther must have
> been discussions of various playback speeds by then surely?
>   I'd love to read Shaw's take on phonograph speeds. Where would one find
> it? It's not from Pygmalion is it?
>
>
> Phonographically,
>
> John B.
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