[78-L] Speed of "Your Feet's Too Big, " was Acoustic disc playback speed?

[David Lennick]

I've just checked my master pressing of Your Feet's Too Big (Canadian Victor 
20-1580, with original Bluebird issue # B-10500A in the dead wax, definitely 
not a dub). If it drops pitch by the end, it does so by something like .01 
percent, or the trumpeter is playing a tiny bit flat (or playing a cheap 
instrument). Starts in C, ends in C. Which is not to say that Steve's pressing 
isn't a dub, where pitch variation could have occurred. Steve's copy could also 
be off center. (I'm setting somebody up for a punch line here, I admit.)

dl

On 1/27/2011 9:27 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> On 1/27/2011 8:16 PM, J. E. Knox wrote:
>> Greetings from FixitLand!
>>
>> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>>
>>> ...even later 78's are NOT necessarily cut at 78.26; I own Waller's
>>> standard of "Yo Feets Too Big,"...and played on a modern 78 player,
>> If you're hearing a key north of Eb, your
>> turntable is running way way WAY too fast! Since you're a musician, I
>> trust your ear is good...A re you using a BSR turntable? They tend to
>> run fast, but not usually THAT fast.     Take care, Joe
>> --
>
> Do you own a strobe disc, Steve?  You have often prided yourself on NOT
> using a modern 78 player, generally opting for changers from the 1950s
> or 60s.  Is the BSR changer what has been cited most recently?  While I
> have a number of tables from that era (such as Bogen/Lencos, ARs, Audio
> Empire, Garrard 201, and even some Califones) I have never considered
> them "modern", but (except for the ARs which don't play 78s) they are
> all variable speed and I have multi-speed strobe discs.  And I do have a
> Techniques 1200 out in the garage that I have not been able to set up
> again since I got it, and that is about a close as I am getting to
> modern.  But a BSR???!!!
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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