[78-L] Speed question

[bradc944 at comcast.net]

This is an electrical pressing but early enough on that I have gone ahead and pitch-checked both sides. They sound... okay at 78, but tempos seem a bit more in line with the material... especially if Fyffe had a squeaky Scotsman's voice.

Thanks :)

Brad

----- Original Message -----
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:19:16 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [78-L] Speed question

UK Columbias even into the electrical era said "80 RPM". I take all those speed 
fixations with a grain of salt and use a pitchpipe on everything. The other 
night as I mentioned, I was transferring a 1923 Percy Grainger Columbia and it 
sounded fine at 78, if a bit draggy. Then I flipped it and played the other 
piece, Golliwog's Cake Walk, which was something I could confirm with other 
recordings..the damn thing was 4% slow.

dl

On 11/23/2011 11:15 PM, bradc944 at comcast.net wrote:
> I'm transferring a US Columbia pressing of a UK recording of Will Fyffe (Columbia's answer to Sir Harry Lauder?). US Catalogue number is 1746-D, matrix is A7496 ("Sailing Up The Clyde b/w "Ye Can Come And See The Baby").
>
> The question is... since some UK Columbias around that time were recorded at 80rpm, is this one of them?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Brad
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