[78-L] Changing speeds [was: Newly-pressed Bix Beiderbecke 78]

[Michael Biel]

  We also discussed the controversy around Stewart Hamblin's Cowboy 
Church Sunday School choir recordings which seem to be speeded up 
slightly to make an older teen age group sound like 9 year olds.  
Hamblin never admitted to it.  I found out from a reissue producer that 
the original master tape is a 7-inch reel at 7 1/2 IPS that Hamblin 
submitted to Decca.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>> And in another reply David Lennick also wrote:
>>> Bob and Ray once did an entire sketch that was played back at high speed. Not
>>> doubling the tape speed, which is easy but difficult to listen to..this was
>>> more like recording it at 33 and playing it back at 45, and then presenting it
>>> as "the kids" doing today's soap opera. This was around 1956.
>>>
>> Isn't this how the kid's voices in "South Park" are done, sped up a
>> little but not too much?  Certainly its done digitally and not from 33
>> /13 to 45.  But the concept is the same.
>>
>> -- Ken