[78-L] unstable records, was CV records

[David Lennick]

Actually it also sounds as if it changes studios. I suspect that one side is 
dubbed..the sides were also recorded four weeks apart.

dl

Sammy Jones wrote:
> Gallagher and Shean's recording of "Positively, Mr. Gallagher?/Absolutely,
> Mr. Shean!" on Victor 18941 appears to change keys at the side change.  I
> have no idea which is correct!
> 
> Sammy
> 
> David Lennick Wrote:
> 
> There's a Paderewski electrical that is a major economy sized pain to keep
> on 
> pitch. Two-sided piece..as I recall, I had to do a pitch adjustment of close
> to 
> 5 percent in the first few seconds.
> 
> There are also some two-part recordings where the pitch is entirely
> different 
> between the two sides. One is Respighi's "Aria di Corte" on Victor
> (Barbirolli, 
> New York Philharmonic). Another is Hovhaness' "Mihr" on Disc..that one drove
> me 
> crazy 30 years ago when I had no frame of reference or proper key-checking 
> equipment and couldn't tell which side was in the correct key, if any.
> 
> dl
> 
> joe at salerno.com wrote:
>> Speed instability is not limited to minor labels or very early records. 
>> We could probably start a new thread of unstable 78s.
>>
>> Rachmaninoff's "One Lives but Once" (Strauss) 78 is horrible for speed 
>> stability IIRC. There's one early piano recording on Gramophone (it's on 
>> APR but I'm too lazy to go look it up) where the artist starts playing 
>> before the platter is rotating up to speed. These were careless things, 
>> or machine malfunctions. It's more surprising that they allowed such a 
>> thing to be released, but in a new industry, who cares? CV records were 
>> an attempt to bring new technology to the market. I don't know if they 
>> played longer, but the sound quality would be more consistent through 
>> out the record, and I assume, surface noise as well.
>>
>> joe salerno
>>