[78-L] The Grafonola in the Classroom and Col A7505

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Sounds like you need to rebuild your reproducer.
The sound breaks up in the upper mids on the "42nd Street" cut.
The other three cuts are... well... er...
Mal

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Royal Pemberton wrote:
> Here's a few attempts at actually playing S7505 on my portable
> Grafonola, and recording it with a Neumann U47fet mike.
>
> I first tried 'Busy Mary' with the mike about 2 feet away, 'looking
> down' at the machine, trying to capture partly the horn's sound, and
> partly the rest of the machine, including the lid.  Here's the result:
>  http://www.box.net/shared/jcma8zsgu1
>
> Not satisfied with this, I tried miking the horn straight on, about 9
> inches away.  It seemed to 'focus' the sound somehow, and I recorded
> both sides of the record in this manner.
>
> 'Busy Mary':  http://www.box.net/shared/yayp0nihe5
>
> 'The toyman's shop':  http://www.box.net/shared/gns6ofb7fj
>
> Before I tried S7505, I tried an electric 78 on the Grafonola, to
> check the miking, which is how I arrived at the first miking of 'Busy
> Mary'.  Here's an excerpt of the electric 78 I used, Don Bestor's
> orchestra playing 'Forty-second street' on Victor 24253 :
> http://www.box.net/shared/9zprck1lhi
>
> On 2/26/09, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net> wrote:
>   
>> ---- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>>     
>>> Royal Pemberton wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I have the transfers of the May Murray record done.  As mentioned
>>>> before, the recording was not terribly clear, but I have tried to make
>>>> it as intelligible as possible with equalisation.
>>>>         
>>> Would a child really be able to understand the words of the record,
>>> especially on an acoustical machine in a classroom???
>>>       
>>>> Tha catalogue number is actually S7505; labels state School Series and
>>>> further state Story Record/Kindergarten.  Transfers made at 78.26 rpm.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Did you hear the repeating clunk that was right in tempo with "La zy Ma
>>> ry, La zy Ma ry, La zy Ma ry . . . "  the first time the sequence
>>> happens halfway thru the record.
>>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>>
>>>       
>> In fact, ALL the numbers that seem to be "missing" from Columbia's
>> A3000 "pop" series were issued (or intended to be) in Columbia's
>> "Educational" series....A3001 through A3??? as well as the A75##
>> 12" series. As someone noted, the early issues bore an "S" prefix...
>> for "School."
>>
>> ...stevenc
>>