[78-L] Portable recordings facilities

[Michael Biel]

  On 8/4/2010 1:32 PM, Erwin Kluwer wrote:
> What about cylinder recordings? Especially the  very early ones
> 1889-1894...these were recorded any place you could set up the cylinder
> player/recorder.....

I considered mentioning that there were ethnomusicologists traipsing all 
over our Appalachian Mountains and out West in Indian country with 
cylinder machines, as was Bela Bartok in Hungary and Romania, and the 
Vienna Phonogramarchiv in Austria,  but these were not masters being 
recorded by record companies for release.  Hungariton has released the 
surviving Bartok cylinders, the Wien Phonogramarchive has done a lot of 
issuing of their early music and speech recordings as well, and LC has 
released on discs lots of Indian and folk cylinders. And don't forget 
the Music of the Orient series discussed here last week which were 
issued in a cylinder set and eventually on disc sets.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Michael Biel<mbiel at mbiel.com>  wrote:
>
>>   On 8/4/2010 2:06 AM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
>>> From: "Michael Biel"<mbiel at mbiel.com>
>>>>    On 8/4/2010 1:40 AM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
>>>>> From: "Hans en Corrie"<koerthchkz at zeelandnet.nl>
>>>>>> Did portable recording facilities exist in 1930? If so, what record
>>>>>> companies used it?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Apparently Okeh was the first company to use "portable" on-site
>>>>> recording equipment; IIRC they started acoustically around
>>>>> 1922-23.
>>>>> Steven C. Barr
>>>> Are you kidding????  There had been traveling recording sessions all
>>>> over Europe and Asia going back to 1902 if not earlier.
>>>>
>>> Nope...not kidding...just referring to North America...!
>>>
>>> Steven C. Barr
>> While that stipulation had not been given, you are still quite wrong.  A
>> notable example of remote recordings by several companies in 1908 were
>> the presidental candidate recordings.  Edison and Victor recorded Bryon
>> in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Taft was recorded in Hot Springs, Virginia by
>> Columbia, Victor, and Edison.  Columbia traveled to Mexico City in 1904
>> and perhaps Cuba in 1906.  Victor also recorded in Cuba I believe.
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com