[78-L] 14 inch Victor Special DeLuxe

[David Lennick]

Quick, somebody lend him "Zulu's Ball".

dl

bruce78rpm at comcast.net wrote:
> No idea who it is, but note that in the comments section, he is being asked to at least use fibre needle when playing that priceless Williams & Walker record from 1901, probably only one of a handful known to exist !! 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com> 
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com 
> Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2009 2:29:18 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
> Subject: [78-L] 14 inch Victor Special DeLuxe 
> 
> I stumbled across this on U Tube. He plays a 14 inch Special DeLuxe 
> 2030 The Flying Dutchman making great care supposedly to play it at the 
> appropriate 60 RPM but it IS actually being played at 45 and he is 
> getting all bent out of shape when people tell him that it is at 45. You 
> can count the speed yourself. Actually he says that he is playing it 
> at the speed where it sounds right to him. Aside from the fact that he 
> is playing the record on a VERY NOISY Victor D (which badly needs at 
> least one new gear) and the record sounds much worse than it should by 
> being played acoustically (I once dubbed off Fred Williams' collection 
> of about 14 of these huge babies and they sounded GREAT electrically) 
> does the key it is being played in at this speed sound right to the 
> musicians in this group??? I know the tempo is m-u-c-h t-o-o 
> s-l-o-w but how about the key?? 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ILU5VTMLyM&feature=related 
> 
> By the way, it will also shock most of you to see him butcher a copy of 
> Williams and Walker "I Don't Like the Face You Wear" on Monarch 987 on 
> that same Model D with a needle that is LOOSE!! Look at the needle as 
> he puts the reproducer on the record. 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFzJdjhWRE8&feature=related 
> 
> And does anybody know who this guy is?? 
> 
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com