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

[Stephanie Gaynor]

Thanks for the information about pitch.  A harmonica would be handy to use for reference pitches -- though I could do little else with it besides play a note.

I will check out your comments on Your Feets Too Big (great song)

Best, Stephanie

--- On Sun, 1/10/10, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net> wrote:

> From: Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] transfer of acoustic vocalions & 8tracks.com for sharing
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Sunday, January 10, 2010, 8:26 PM
> ----- 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 
> 
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