[78-L] 14 inch Victor Special DeLuxe

[martha]

 An attempt at speed correction (audio only) : 
http://www.box.net/shared/gp6sbrtm6z


 Also discussed here 
http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2357    and the guilty 
party identifies himself & still thinks that 60rpm was too fast, along with 
others who counted 45rpm in the video and some Einstein who insists you 
cannot count rpms in a video, and others who think it's just fine. 
Musically deaf people, collecting records - who woulda thunkit?


 Calls himself "Neophone" on the above forum ..


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <bruce78rpm at comcast.net>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] 14 inch Victor Special DeLuxe


> 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