[78-L] transfer of acoustic vocalions & 8tracks.com for sharing

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com>
> In this kind of music I do not believe I would be able to tell if such a
> slight difference in speed would be correct or not.
> joe salerno
> Stephanie Gaynor wrote:
>> thank you!  Do you think 80rpm is the right speed?  martha posts that 
>> they are too fast.
>>
For the first several (dunno how many?!) decades of the manufacture of 
phonograph
records, NO "official" standard speed was ever selected! Columbia and a few 
lesser
labels cited 80 rpm, while Victor was at one point recommending 76 rpm! 
Early-era
collectors of classical vocal recordings used to argue endlessly about the 
ACTUAL
recording speed of such phonorecords.

This question is often answered by establishing the key of the recorded 
performance
(note that aging "stars" often recorded at speeds well below "78," in order 
to give
the illusion they could still hit high notes when in fact they no longer 
could?!).

AFAIK, the pitch of playback only matters to folkses like myself, who are 
trying
to play an instrument (harmonica, in my case!) along with a 78 recording. 
Note my
earlier comments concerning the RCA 78 of "Your Feets Too Big!"

Steven C. Barr