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

[David Lennick]

I use a ten dollar pitchpipe, which you can buy at any music store. Some people 
like electronic tone generators..I find them not musical enough.

dl

Stephanie Gaynor wrote:
> 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 
>>