[78-L] Acoustic BSO recordings

[Philip Carli]

Also, Victor used a series of "igloos", or acoustic chambers with the BSO's instrumental groups, set up in the Auditorium studio (I think this was the first time it had been used for commercially issued disc), to supposedly focus sound towards a _few_ recording horns.  Two or three horns had been used for large-group recordings for a number of years by 1917, both here and in Europe; this was the most extensive experiment this way to that date. PC
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Acoustic BSO recordings

 On 06/04/2013, David Lennick wrote:

> I'm trying not to imagine the sound of 12 French horns....
>
 The 1959 Mackerras recording of Handel's Fireworks music
uses nine horns (as did the first performance).

(And 26 oboes, 14 bassoons, 4 contra-bassoons, 2 serpents, 9 trumpets, 3
pairs of tympani and 6 side drums.)

Regards
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Don Cox
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