[78-L] Melba Issue Historic Masters

[Sam Hopper]

Strange! I did a simple search on the HM website for contact info and  
got the address and email address in less than 6 seconds.

I thought the website was easy to follow.

Maybe there is no US access to the Tamagno

Anyway, contact info taken from website is:


To purchase copies of this issue, please contact:
16, Highfield Rd; North Thoresby; Lincolnshire, DN36 5RT
Tel. 01472 840236; Fax. 0709 2387408
Email. roger at beardsley75.freeserve.co.uk

Sam
sam at bytesite.com.au







On 10/01/2009, at 7:52 AM, Thomas Stern wrote:

> I've just looked at the HM website - what a busy confusing mess!!
> NO contact information,
> If one tries to order, there is no US shipping option for TAMAGNO,  
> nor ISSUE
> 30 (there is for MELBA).
> Trying to setup account information, there is no option for different
> billing and shipping addresses.
> ANYONE KNOW HOW TO RESOLVE THESE PROBLEMS???
> Thanks, Thomas.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of Chris Zwarg
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 5:03 AM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Melba Issue Historic Masters
>
>
> At 10:22 07.01.2009, you wrote:
>> Does anybody already got this...?
>>
>> I am curious about the sound quality of this issue...
>>
>> Erwin
>
> Yes I have it, and am very happy with it! The 14 master-pressed  
> sides are
> really splendid - I have NEVER heard e.g. "Nymphes et sylvains" or  
> "Se saran
> rose" that vividly, neither on apparently mint 1904 G&T pressings  
> nor on
> Marston's CD nor from any other source. They all play excellently  
> with a
> standard 2.8 mil stylus.
>
> The "bonus" disc containing two titles for which the original shells
> ("fathers") have disappeared, and is pressed from old duplicate "CO."
> matrices, is rather more difficult to play and illustrates rather
> drastically the loss in fidelity through the early matrix-duplicating
> process. However, one of these two sides is unpublished on 78 and the
> other - Melba's very first G&T recording - not that easy to find as an
> original pressing (which then probably wouldn't sound better than this
> reissue; it's just that you don't have the obvious improvement over  
> earlier
> forms of issue with these two sides that you find with the other 14  
> sides).
>
> BTW: The other recent Historic Masters issues ("set 30") are also  
> excellent;
> the pressing quality is much improved compared with what they put  
> out in the
> 1990s - heavier vinyl less prone to warping, and mostly well- 
> centered. The
> Supervia Gennai songs have never sounded that good!
>
> Chris Zwarg
>
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