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

[I. Cubillo]

Yes yes. The trick is the no. of times you play it.

In a former post I told you about my uglies stored in boxes in the
basement... (the post got to the list truncated, but I'm repeating the
essential). From time to time I took home one box, and play the records in
it. Invariably there are 5 or 6 good records. Box no. 18 was an ugly
favourite during last three months at home. There were many good 78s in it.
And the ugliest ones (except the very uglies among the uglies) can be played
several times and the become not so uglies. Many times I've been wondering
WHY did I decide those were uglies, and punished them to basement
retirement... It's a sort of having a Flea Market in your own basement!

At the end, probably a 60% of the time devoted to play 78s is spent playing
UGLIES from those boxes...




Iñigo Cubillo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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> 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>
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> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 12:19 PM
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> 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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