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

[Harold Aherne]

I gather that I'm a bit younger than most other people on this list, and the first time
I heard an acoustic disc I took to it like a cat to cream. The blues singers have to
be listened to carefully, of course, and it can take a couple of tries before I make out
every word, but it's invariably worthwhile. I'm very fond of the All-Star Trio, Joseph C.
Smith, et al., and I remember acoustic and electric recordings equally well. It's more
a matter of how many times you listen to a given recording than the character of the
recording itself (unless the latter compels you not to listen to it!). 
À chacun son goût, en tout cas.
 
-Harold


--- On Thu, 4/30/09, I. Cubillo <i.cubillo at telefonica.net> wrote:

From: I. Cubillo <i.cubillo at telefonica.net>
Subject: Re: [78-L] How well did they do it.
To: "78-L" <78-L at 78online.com>
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 12:43 PM

Just the same happens to me. It's clear that our ears can be educated to
certain *odd* eq's. At my beginning in collecting 78s, I hardly could
suffer
the acoustic sound. And depending on how frequently I play them, my ears
feel more or less easy to that sound.
Usually, after days not listening to 78s, my memory stays with the electric
sound, so when I first play an acoustic, it's a bit hard. But after two or
three sides, I get accostumed to the soud annd the following ones sound
better to me.