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

[Royal Pemberton]

By the way, the reason a lot of those older '78's sound more correct
played at slower speeds is, they were oftentimes recorded slower than
78!

On 4/30/09, I. Cubillo <i.cubillo at telefonica.net> wrote:
> 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>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 9:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] How well did they do it.
>
>
>> 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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