[78-L] Youth collectors^

[Don Chichester]

What will they think of next?!

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> Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 16:13:44 +0100
> From: ampex354 at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Youth collectors
> 
> I've had people tell me you can't make a recording onto a piece of wire.
> They're utterly dumbstruck when I bring out my dad's Webster-Chicago model
> 80 and they get to see and hear it operate....
> 
> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 3:15 PM, DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com> wrote:
> 
> > What an interesting discussion!
> >
> > At 67, I'm sure I'm not the oldest person on this list, but the vast
> > majority of the 78s I'm interested in are from before I was born. I have
> > had many young people visiting us who are fascinated by my Credenza and want
> > to hear it. Before I play it for them, I emphasize that this was the last
> > word in audio technology in 1925. I play for them the 1919 recording of
> > Stokowski performing the Prelude to Act I of Carmen on my Brunswick table
> > model from 1920. I let them get used to the sound and appreciate that this
> > record/gramophone combination was not a novelty at that time; that people
> > were amazed that they could have the sounds of the Philadelphia Orchestra in
> > their homes and would gather around in awe; that the only home musical
> > experience before this technology was the family pianist or a music box.
> > When I have that sound and perspective in their minds, I play for them the
> > 1927 recording of Stokowski playing the same Prelude on my Credenza.
> > Of course the contrast is impressive and I often have to continue to play
> > records on the Credenza. They are particularly impressed with the fact that
> > there is nothing between the pick-up and their ears except air - no wires,
> > no tubes, etc. When I play them a Caruso record on the Brunswick and
> > explain that there is nothing between Caruso's lips and their ears except
> > two styli and two thin diagphrams and air, this is also a revelation to
> > them.
> >
> > Now, of course, all of these young people don't run out and become record
> > collectors but they are certainly interested in the field and when you take
> > into account the billions of young people on the planet, I don't think it's
> > too far-fetched to think that there will still be collectors appearing as
> > time goes on.
> >
> > When my daughter, (now in her mid twenties), was in grade 8, the teacher
> > asked the class if anyone knew what an LP was. She was the only one who
> > raised her hand and then told the teacher that she, in fact, knew what a 78
> > was. Well the teacher didn't know what a 78 was and she had to explain it
> > to him and the class. Another teacher who runs a restaurant in the summer
> > in Parry Sound, ON, told me that his kids were asking him about these old
> > records that rotate really fast, I explained them to him and gave him a
> > couple to show the class. He had never seen them before.
> >
> > So everybody on the list is right - the young people of today don't know
> > what a 78 is and they are also very interested when they hear one.
> >
> > End of argument!, (Yeah right!)
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