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

[Royal Pemberton]

Similar speed adjustment would have been a good idea in transferring
anything else that wasn't going to be overdubbed but would be dubbed for
rerelease from acoustic or very early electrics that weren't exactly
nominal 78.

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:03 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 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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