[78-L] Famous objections

[Francesco Martinelli]

In the rightly praised book of Cemal Unlu about gramophones and 78 rpm in 
Turkey there's the reproduction of a notebook by Tamburi Cemil Bey. The 
great soloist was listening and severely criticizing his own playing before 
allowing Orfeon to release the records.
FM
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Davies" <SDavies at mtroyal.ca>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:02 PM
Subject: [78-L] Famous objections


>        I'm looking for stories of bygone artists who objected to the
> quality of their recordings.  Classical music was rife with this
> resentment, I suppose.
>        But I was wondering about the Emerson policy of having artists
> endorse their recordings, as in the "O.K. Tom Brown for Six Brown Bros."
> signature on the label, which we discussed earlier.  Was this to reassure
> the disc-buying public that the sound was unimpeachable for their day?
> - Stephen D
> Calgary
>
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