[78-L] Tempo Records (and Brother Bones)

[Dan Van Landingham]

The selections you mentioned were the same ones I had on that multiple LP set.Ben Light
was at the Steinway piano and Lloyd Sloop was playing an instrument called a "Novachord".The copywright was given as 1949.I found it at some thrift store a number of
years ago.

--- On Mon, 1/18/10, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:


From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Tempo Records (and Brother Bones)
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 9:22 PM


GENE JOSLIN wrote:
> Tempo's "Direct Electronic Process" was employed in recording the Hammond Organ.
> 
> The output from the Hammond console was fed directly into the recording amplifier and so  to the cutter head.
> 
> The result was an extremely clean recording. both Hammond Speaker and studio microphone having been eliminated from the chain.
> 
> This was being done at the end of the forties.
> 
> Before long  Leslie speakers were dominating the field.
> 
> It was not possible to make a direct recording with the Leslie system since the live sound and fabulous vibrato were created by the speaker and had to be picked up by microphone.    -GJ
> 

Interesting. But since the notation appears on other Tempo records as well, 
shall we assume that the violin of Joe Venuti, the harp of Robert Maxwell and 
the voice of Pietro Gentile were also recorded by this amazing process that 
eliminated microphones?

dl

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