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

[Royal Pemberton]

Well....if I only knew where I could get the proper rubber gaskets for
it.  About 30 years ago I improvised, and used some pieces of 16 gauge
vinyl insulated wire, cut to fit, to replace the original, dried,
shrunken, cracked, rattle-prone parts.  Also, that copy of '42nd
street' is very worn, and the needle wasn't far behind.

I take it you mean as well, playing the other record on it really
didn't do much of anything towards increasing intelligibility of it?


On 2/28/09, Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> *******
>
> 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
>>>
>
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