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

[David Lennick]

Wait a minute..that's pretty much what YOU said.

On 3/4/2013 11:02 AM, David Lennick wrote:
> 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.
>>
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