[78-L] WWI descriptive record with fadeout

[Julian Vein]

Philip Carli wrote:
That's the point of "patrols", which were a fairly common American 
descriptive musical genre from the 1880s up to 1910 or so -- the band 
comes from a distance, plays loudly as it supposedly passes the auditor, 
and then goes away.  The most famous piece of the type is F. W. 
Meacham's "American Patrol" (1885), which I'm sure was recorded pretty 
early as it was enormously popular.  The interesting thing is when you 
have the effect done by a mix of voices, conversation, _and_ instruments 
(as in the "British Troops" selection) rather than strictly instrumental 
means; you can control diminuendos by volume and orchestration very 
easily, but less so with voice groups.  PC
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Has anyone checked the Doppler Effect to see if the band was really moving?

      Julian Vein