[78-L] train horn

[David Lennick]

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I can't imagine any use for acoustically recorded sound effects except any that Edison might have recorded for experimental synchronization with their own films. Bird sounds did exist on acoustical 78s, and one was called for in the score of Respighi's Pines of Rome, along with a Brunswick Panatrope.
 http://thunderswallow.blogspot.ca/2015/06/respighi-pines-of-rome.html

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> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 07:15:38 -1000
> From: malcolm at 78data.com.invalid
> Subject: Re: [78-L] train horn
> 
> 
> Hi Joe, et al -
> I've had a chance to do a bit of digging...
> 
> There is one earlier SPC train whistle recording earlier than the 
> passing passenger train I previously mentioned. It's mx. GE 14013, rec. 
> Richmond 07/06/28, shown as a test, and was not issued.
> The first mention of a train horn is on GeSE 1034 A/B, rec. Richmond, 
> Sept 25, 1931. There was a block of train recordings made at sessions 
> between 09/03/31 and 09/17/31, some of which have bells, whistles, horns 
> and the like, but none of those were listed as having been issued.
> With that said, the fledgling Richmond studio supposedly began 
> experimental recordings around 1916 and the Starr Piano Company (SPC) 
> did build a "portable" acoustic recording rig (undated) but all known 
> released Sound Effect issues were electrically recorded.
> With that said, it is entirely possible there were earlier sound effects 
> recorded but they do not show up in the ledgers. No recordings, sound 
> effects or otherwise, which may have been made at Richmond prior to 1921 
> have been verified.
> 
> Best,
> Malcolm
> 
> *******
> 
> On 9/20/2015 1:06 AM, Joe Salerno wrote:
> > Thanks to everyone who has responded. I was just curious, but seeing the
> > date posted by Malcolm, I am surprised that there is not anything
> > earlier than '28. I was assuming that something acoustic was out there
> > hiding somewhere...probably behind the truth.
> >
> > Joe Salerno
> >
> > On 9/19/2015 12:09 PM, GAVIN WHITELAW wrote:
> >> Whistle rather than horn? There was an early test sound film done pre 1928.
> >>    Gavin R Whitelaw
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >>        On Saturday, 19 September 2015, 17:43, Malcolm <malcolm at 78data.com.invalid> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Jan. 13, 1928, in the Richmond ledgers, was the first Gennett recording
> >> I could find of a passenger train going by. Don't know about the horn,
> >> though. If i dig more extensively I may find something earlier.
> >> Malcolm
> >>
> >> *******
> >>
> >> On 9/8/2015 2:58 AM, Joe Salerno wrote:
> >>> I was just wondering what would be the earliest made recording of a
> >>> train horn. Any clues?
> >>>
> >>> Thx,
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