[78-L] acoustic recording

[Michael Biel]

DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> I'm curious to know if they ever tried multi-horning - using one horn for the voice and a second for the piano or orchestra or whatever.  They certainly had long enough to try this kind of inovation, they were aware of the complications of trying to get all of the musicians around a single horn.  Flexible tubing should enable the horns to be moved around and  the recording engineer could even have chokes, similar to those used to control the volume of an acoustic gramophone, to control the recording volume from each horn.  I'm sure that likely they didn't but it's an interesting thought.
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> db
Multi horning was very common.  I recently read an article which 
discussed the remaining Victor or HMV specs on the joining devices, 
which included notations on the percentage of the openings for one horn 
vs. the other horn, but I can't locate it now.  I should ask George 
Brock-Nannestad where it can be found. 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com