[78-L] BACKGROUND ARTIFACTS (WAS Hal Kemp record question)

[Steven C. Barr]

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From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> And then there's the Bruno Walter/Paris Conservatory Orchestra recording 
> of the
> Berlioz "Symphonie Fantastique" made in the late 30s, where all through 
> the
> slow movement you can hear somebody banging away on the roof (or trying to 
> dig
> his way out of the tower).
> And the famous dog barking during an Ormandy Columbia LP..this happened 
> when
> they transferred the lacquers to 33RPM and ran it through their "echo 
> chamber"
> which happened to include an air vent open to New York street sounds.
> Over the years we've documented buzzer sounds, a "how was that" at the end 
> of
> one of Robert Wildhack's monologues, foghorns in the East River audible on 
> a
> Caruso record and the like....
> I still have to dig out that Harry James record.
>
For MANY years, I thought/asumed all the thumps and bumps I heard on Pathe
Actuelle recordings were "background noise!" Then, I discovered those were
from the unique system Pathe used...mastering to a LARGE cylinder!

...stevenc