[78-L] Speed question

[David Lennick]

Recorded June 13, 1928 so 78RPM may be more likely for this, but I've had wide 
variances on English Columbias from various time frames. The conductor is 
Albert W. Ketelbey, by the way!

dl

On 11/23/2011 11:40 PM, bradc944 at comcast.net wrote:
> 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
>
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> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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>
> 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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