[78-L] Approximating 78s age by physical characteristics

[David Lennick]

More to the point, the orchestra would have to be playing in the same key as 
the orchestra on the originals, so adjustment must have been made in playing 
the discs.

dl

On 3/4/2013 10:55 AM, Royal Pemberton wrote:
> I have to wonder, with the series of dubbed Caruso reissues at least, was
> there any effort made toward speed correction?  It would seem that in that
> period, with at least some of the principal participants still alive, they
> would have been able to verify correct playback speeds of the original
> discs so that when the new parts were being cut (on a lathe which should
> first have been confirmed to be running accurately at either US or UK
> nominal 78 depending on locale) playback of the new records at nominal 78
> would be true to the pitch of the music as performed when the recordings
> were made, and not how they sound played back at 78, right or wrong.
>