[78-L] How well did they do it.

[David Lennick]

When I was in Edmonton in the early 80s, I went to a number of concerts by the 
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in the Jubilee Auditorium (I think that was the 
name of the place). For one of them, I sat right at the top, and I was amazed 
that the orchestra in that particular set of acoustics sounded like an early 
electrical recording.

(That was the hall where a certain Canadian female guitarist of limited talent 
was doing her usual thing during the Bach birthday celebrations and a balloon 
exploded and everybody laughed..only to find that she hadn't been shot by the 
ghost of old J.S.)

dl

soundthink at aol.com wrote:
> When I was in New York recently, I saw Vince Giordano & his Nighthawks perform at Club Cache. The musicians are all seasoned studio performers,?most play on period instruments, and the group uses original charts - for me, that's as close as I will get to hearing what a '20s jazz/dance band might have sounded like.
> 
> Cary Ginell
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com>
> To: 78-L at 78online.com
> Sent: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 2:42 pm
> Subject: [78-L] How well did they do it.
> 
> 
> 
> ?I've been thinking about exactly how accurately recordings were able to capture 
> the sounds of the 20s, over 80 years ago.?? It's almost impossible to compare a 
> recording with the original sound.? Any singers which were around then who might 
> still be here certainly don't have the same voice.? Orchestras develop over the 
> years and don't sound like they did 80 years ago.? I don't think any concert 
> hall or recording studio has remained unchanged for that time.? Even if we could 
> find instruments which were used on recordings then, the artists are all gone 
> and the instruments also change with time.? One may find a pipe organ that 
> hasn't been modified in 80 years but I can't think of one which was recorded 
> back then which might still sound the same - Temple church was bombed in WWII, 
> Royal Albert Hall's organ and acoustics have changed drastically since then.? I 
> don't know if Mark Andrews', Jesse Crawford's?or Lew White's organs are still 
> around.?
>  Choruses and choirs, of course are constantly changing.?
> 
> What brought this thought to mind was that I was listening to records the other 
> day recorded in 1927 which, I believe, are unique in that they are probably a 
> few of the only recordings which can be compared today the their original 
> source.? Those are the 5 Victor sides which are?recordings of the Carillon, (to 
> avoid the word "Biels),?at the Victory Tower, Ottawa, (now the Peace Tower).? 
> I've heard that Carillon many times and it's interesting to compare the 
> recordings to the sound of the Carillon.
> 
> db
> 
> P.S. as soon as I finished this letter I imagined some mention of Herbert Von 
> Carillon, so I'm glad I got that out of the way
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