[78-L] A bit o' grit

[David Lennick]

Distributed by Everest, so it should be around. Excellent sound, as I recall.

dl

On 1/4/2013 10:56 AM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
> I have not heard this one. I have heard a pirate CD of Gilels in the
> Rach 3 in which the orchestra sounds like it is in another room due to
> the prominence of the piano. Much orchestral detail is lost.
>
> joe salerno
>
> On 1/3/2013 4:29 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>> 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
>>>>>