[78-L] Acoustic BSO recordings

[David Lennick]

I haven't listened to the BSO recordings in quite a while, but I was amazed 
years ago to play the earliest Stokowski Victors with some experimental bass 
boost (a Fisher amp I once owned had a "tape head" eq that did amazing things) 
and lo and behold, there were bass instruments, not tubas.

dl

On 4/7/2013 10:58 AM, Philip Carli wrote:
> 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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> Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 1:33 AM
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] Acoustic BSO recordings
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>   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
> --
> Don Cox
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>