[78-L] A bit o' grit

[David Lennick]

Ever hear the Emil Gilels Tchaikovsky 2nd on Baroque? Live recording, from a 
Russian tape. Gilels got lost in the last movement, and the producer (someone I 
know) made a valiant attempt to edit the tape into something sensible. And he 
did it twice..the mono and stereo versions are different!

dl

On 1/3/2013 5:19 PM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
> A photog's loop doesn't cost that much and would probably suffice for
> many applications. Also other things around the house. I think last time
> I bought one it was about $15 at a camera shop. You might even find one
> with a built in light. They can be made small enough nowadays.
>
> On the subject of bad editing, I have a CD somewhere of the Tchaikovsky
> Piano Concerto ,not an unfamiliar work at all, that has an EXTRA measure
> where an extra repetition was inserted. And done well too, you can't
> even tell that the music was inserted. With time audio editing has not
> always improved. And there's that Horowitz CD in which a huge piece of
> the music was omitted and the audio made a very obvious jump. They don't
> proof listen to these things it seems.
>
> joe salerno
>
>
> On 1/3/2013 1:46 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>> Interesting. The clicks can be dealt with digitally, but getting a straight
>> play through is more important, since the person trying to piece it together
>> from the semi-complete fragments may not know how the music is supposed to go
>> (I have a pressing on Richmond of Ansermet conducting Le Sacre where a passage
>> starts and stops, then re-starts, and someone didn't know there should have
>> been an edit).
>>
>> I don't have a microscope but the element causing the disturbance is definitely
>> atop the grooves, not a pit or dig.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 1/3/2013 2:04 PM, Christopher Steward wrote:
>>> You could try this:
>>> http://daveyw.edsstuff.org/vinyl/inspection/
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> --- On Thu, 3/1/13, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>   wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> Subject: [78-L] A bit o' grit
>>> To: "78L"<78-L at 78online.com>
>>> Date: Thursday, 3 January, 2013, 16:41
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any cure, outside of using a chisel, for a bit of grit that
>>> adheres to a fine-groove lp and causes skips and/or repeats and does not come
>>> out with either the professional cleaning methods (Monks et al) or a carefully
>>> aimed fingernail?
>>>
>>> dl
>>>