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

[Taylor Bowie]

Right on the mark,  Harold.  Tolstoy himself couldn't have said it better!

Taylor B


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harold Aherne" <leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] How well did they do it.


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.





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