We’ve done that too!
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> On 22 Jan 2018, at 17:08, John Haley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hi, Lorna,
>
> That is a fascinating bit of evidence. Don't you think, given that human
> beings are born tinkerers, that a knowledgeable recording engineer, using
> that piece of equipment and knowing that problem, would have applied some
> "Kentucky windage,"deliberately speeding up the recording process some more
> so the result would be closer to the original pitch when played back? I
> sure would have done that. The human factor probably interrupts what we
> would like to establish as some kind of rule.
>
> Best,
> John Haley
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 11:57 AM, Lorna Fulton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> I record on a 1938 presto lathe and the recording (despite a lot of
>> tinkering) consistently records at 7% more speed than the musicians have
>> just played at.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On 22 Jan 2018, at 16:31, Chris Smith <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> It¹s generally accepted that the Georgia Cotton Pickers¹ session of 7/8
>>> December 1930 was recorded too slow, so that playback at 78 is too fast.
>>> Southern Preservation Records issued ŒShe¹s Coming Back Some Cold Rainy
>>> Day¹ at both speeds on an LP - notes reproduced at
>>> https://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?action=
>> dlattach;topic=11117.0;a
>>> ttach=6287;image. That was presumably an engineering error, rather than
>>> deliberate, however.Mississippi John Hurt¹s ŒFrankie¹ was similarly
>>> recorded too slow, and plays back too fast: some discussion at
>>> https://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=4931.0. (My name is
>>> mentioned there; I would not - I think - now support the theory I
>>> advanced, which is mentioned.
>>>
>>> There is a persistent, and ridculous, theory that Robert Johnson¹s
>>> recordings were deliberately sped up for release, comprehensibely
>> debunked
>>> at http://www.elijahwald.com/johnsonspeed.html.
>>>
>>>
>>> Chris Smith
>>>
>>> On 22/01/2018 16:09, "Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List on
>>> behalf of Terri Brinegar" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of
>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello All,
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone tell me if recordings in the 1920s were transferred to disc
>> at
>>>> exactly the same speed as they were recorded? In other words, if someone
>>>> is singing an ³F² pitch on the recording, is that the actual pitch sung
>>>> or could the engineer possibly speed it up somehow, thus raising the
>>>> pitch? Not sure if that was possible back then.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>>
>>>> Terri Brinegar
>>>> PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology
>>>> University of Florida
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>>
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