[78-L] Sail On (revised posting)

[Michael Biel]

Michael Biel wrote:  REVISED POSTING
> Dnjchi at aol.com wrote:
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>> Can someone tell me when this was recorded by the Billy Sunday choir?   It 
>> sounds almost too goo to be acoustic.
>> Don Chichester
>>     
>
> 1916.  There is a picture of the recording session in the centerfold of 
> one of the monthly Victor supplements showing the acoustical recorder 
> and the several thousand singers.  Play the record at 72 or 73 RPM, I 
> think the pitch of the cheer at the end of the sides is too highly 
> pitched at 76 or 78.  This recording proves that the claims of the miracle of The 
> Associated Glee Clubs of America recordings could only have been made 
> electrically is bunk.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  
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