Hi Paul:

I think they are aptly named "accidental stereo." It's not an intentional mic setup for an 
intentional 2-channel recording intended for 2-channel playback. Maybe "coincidental stereo" would 
be a better term because, by coincidence, both disks survived to be sync'd and reissued as a 
2-channel product.

By the way, to my ears, the same is true of the Elgar EMI recording -- the mics weren't set up with 
the intention of 2-channel playback but it happens to work in a way that adds more of a sense of 
room-space than is heard on either mono recording.

As I said earlier, it's an interesting thing for collectors, and certainly not anything that should 
be controversial or temper-raising to the record companies, but it's not a big deal in the evolution 
of stereo sound like Bell Labs and Blumlein research was. I think anyone with ears realized, long 
before recording methods were invented, that different listening positions yield different listening 
perspectives, so there's no great "discovery" that 2 mics placed at different positions in front of 
the same musicians will pick up slightly different things. That's the only thing "proven" by the 
accidental stereo stuff, again no huge deal.

-- Tom Fine

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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Duke Ellington accidental stereo comparison


> Tom Fine, so in your opinion are they stereo or  "stereo phoney"
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> Paul Urbahns
> Radcliff, ky
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