[78-L] WWI descriptive record with fadeout

[Michael Biel]

On 4/21/2011 10:34 AM, Philip Carli wrote:
> There are a number of "patrol" type records with smooth apparent "fade-outs" going back to fairly early days.  Syracuse University has a copy of an Edison-Bell cylinder from about 1905-06 titled "The Suffering Suffragettes" where a small parade comes in from the distance (this is after the announcement), there is a short comic meeting, and then they go off again.  All very slickly done, complete with a Salvation Army-type bass drum keeping time and fading away.

I've got this beat by a decade!  Berliner 8, Coxey's Army Patrol, 
probably recorded in 1894, is much the same with the band marching in, 
playing a bit, and then marching away.  I have it on tape from when I 
recorded Fred Williams' Berliner collection.  It is a thin celluloid 
pressing and although it has no recording date it is very similar to his 
copy of Berliner 248 The Swiss Boy  Cornet Duet which is clearly dated 
Nov 8, 1894.  Both run at about 60 RPM.

Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com

>   Some acoustic studios were big enough to allow some movement away from the immediate recording area; another trick (evident in Edison's "That Mysterious Rag" cylinders, both the 2-minute and 4-minute Amberol versions, 1910) was to evidently have a combination of decrescendo from the singers and slowly turning away from the horn.  These techniques presumably could be combined, I suppose.  All this is a bit of guesswork and observation on my part anyway, but I thought I'd offer them.  Philip Carli
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> I have this on US Victor.  It's an S/8 master (an acoustically made dub)
> with both a slow fade in as well as that slow fade out.  And I can't detect
> when the reproducer started and ended playback unlike many Edison BA
> cylinders at the start, or find any explanation for it being a dubbing
> anywhere.  (There's no real info on it even on EDVR.)
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Julian Vein<julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> Mike Daley wrote:
>>> I just picked up this Canadian Victor of "British Troops Passing Through
>>> Boulogne," a descriptive record from 1914.
>>>
>>> http://db.tt/LBzKlei
>>>
>>> At the end of the record, as the troops march off into the distance
>> their
>>> singing and footfalls "fade" very smoothly, much like a board fade of
>> today.
>>> This strikes me as unusual in the acoustic era. Are there other examples
>> of
>>> fadeouts at the ends of acoustic records?
>>>
>>> Mike
>>> _______________________________________________
>> Perhaps they were marching into the English Channel?
>>
>>       Julian Vein