[78-L] Hello and a question [FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

Mahler 9 was probably done with two turntables; if you have the 78's, you
will hear the abrupt cutoff at the end of many sides, and the long silence at the [abrupt] beginning of the next side.

Mike in Plovdiv


--- On Wed, 11/12/08, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Hello and a question
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 12:52 PM
> This was done on many recordings, such as most of
> Toscanini's in the 1930s, by 
> feeding the audio to one cutter and having a second one
> ready when the 
> engineers were getting near where the record should end.
> Then they switched the 
> audio feed to the second cutter. Sometimes this was a very
> abrupt change and 
> there would be a lot of blank grooves at the beginning of
> the second side while 
> they waited for an appropriate place to make the change
> (and sometimes they 
> were almost too late).
> 
> Some recordings were made at 33RPM on long-playing
> sixteen-inch discs and 
> transferred later to 78.
> 
> dl
> 
> Pablo Varela wrote:
> > Hello all :)
> > I have a big doubt about history of recording of live
> events in 78's era.
> > For example, what kind of machine was used for
> recording Mahler's Ninth by Bruno Walter in Viena 1938.
> Common shellacs have 4 minutes playback by side. How was
> recording this performance without a break?
> > I hope I was clear because I usually speak in spanish.
> > Thank you in advance.
> > Pablo Varela.
> > 
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