[78-L] Metropolitan Opera broadcasts in the old house

[David Lennick]

The Scriabin "Divine Poem" was VERY noisy and full of pitch flux as well. And 
done quarter track on thin tape. Very hard to deal with.

dl

On 12/27/2010 4:04 PM, Kevin P. Mostyn wrote:
> One of the Rodzinski's will be issued shortly by WHRA. I have heard the
> transfer and it's quite useable. Only known source (in print or audio) of
> the original version of the Barber 1st symphony. I have heard many transfers
> made by the NBC staff of the 1930s and 1940s transcriptions. While they
> aren't ideal (GE cartridge, RCA transcription turntable, etc. quality) they
> are quite listenable. Happily, they were made so long ago, pre-1976, that
> the discs, by and large, didn't suffer as yet from palmitic acid oozing.
>
> Bill Shaman (whom I believe is impossible to approach, others have tried)
> does indeed have those transfers. He was part of that clique, along with
> Stan Farwig&  Vic Gerard, both now deceased, with access to many things.
>
> --Kevin Mostyn
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 11:05 AM
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>
> Richard Rodzinski has tape transfers of Rodzinski/NBC Symphony broadcasts
> that he says were made by Robert Sarnoff for Mrs. Rodzinski (Halina). Too
> bad the discs weren't cleaned and played with a proper stylus and were on
> quarter-track.
>
> What about all these supposedly first-generation tape transfers Bill Shaman
> claims to own?
>
> dl
>
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