[78-L] Concert Hall series

[Michael Biel]

This identical numbering reminds me of a great scene in The Simpsons
where Homer and a young tempting pretty country singer he's trying to
resist are eating at Madam Chao's Chinese restaurant and both get their
fortune cookies which say "You will find happiness with a new love." 
Cut to the kitchen where a waiter confronts an empty cookie barrel. 
"We're out of these 'new love' cookies."  and the other one says "Well,
open up the 'Stick with your wife' barrel."  
 http://www.hulu.com/watch/24760/the-simpsons-were-gonna-have-sex#x-0,vclip,18

There also was a Mad magazine cover where there were six different
numbers to the limited edition repeated over and over-- the joke is
perceived if there were enough copies in the store showing some
different and some same numbers.  And we've all seen sweepstakes where
every coupon is numbered the same -- except for the ONE winner.  

What is of the most concern with limited edition numbering here on the
day of the Beatles reissues is the numbering on the original LPs of the
white album.  We all know what happened when the one with number 5 was
auctioned off in the past year.  

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  


   -------- Original Message --------
 
 From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
 
 
 I was at a collector's house this evening and noticed a Concert Hall
album on 
 one shelf, so naturally I checked the number. It was another copy of
the 
 Richard Dyer-Bennet Beethoven set, A-9. The number? 80! So maybe some
of these 
 limited edition numbers are genuine after all. But the signature still
looked 
 printed or stamped.
 
 
David Lennick wrote:
 > Omigawd..another classical music scandal....for what it's worth, I
have two 
 > copies of A-9, Beethoven Scottish Songs by Richard Dyer-Bennet. One
is #977 and 
 > the other is .. #1215. And RDB's signatures are identical.   dl

DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
 >> Whenever I see an indication of only 2000 copies made of which this
is number xxxx, I am a little sceptical since it would be very difficult
to check. I found a copy of Ray Lev playing Brahms Sonata in C, it is
number 725 of 2000. Looking further through my shelves, I found a copy
of Ray Lev playing Schubert's Sonata in C and, to my amazement, found
that this is also number 725 of 2000. My curiosity piqued, I searched
for some more albums and found William Schuman's Symphony for Strings
conducted by Edgar Schenkman, (Peter's father if anyone knows Peter
Schenkman), and it was number 1215 of 2000. Looking further, I found one
more album from this series - Barber's Capricorn concerto and, well Land
a Goshen it was also number 1215 of 2000. I think the mathematical odds
of this consistency are rather extreme. 
 >>
 >> Does anyone know if the Concert Hall recordings series were
legitimate or not?
 >> db