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Begin forwarded message: > From: Thornton Hagert <[log in to unmask]> > Date: June 17, 2009 12:01:21 PM EDT > To: [log in to unmask] > Cc: Annie Stanfield-Hagert <[log in to unmask]>, Lawrence Gushee > <[log in to unmask]>, David Sager <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Recording Speed > > In response to Dave Lewis' recent message "I Heard the Voice of the > Chipmunk" - about recording speeds, I have noticed instances of > recording companies deliberately recording at other-than-playback > speeds, for various reasons. The following examples come to mind; > if I check them more carefully, this message will never be written. > Edison 51056, Broadway Dance Orchestra "Russian Rose", plays > back in the key of F but was clearly performed in Eb and recorded > "slowly". See my notes for the Smithsonian album DMM2-0518, "An > Experiment In Modern Music" Paul Whiteman at Aeolian Hall. How > often did Edison do this ? > Okeh 40675, Cookie's Gingersnaps, "Love Found You for Me" > plays back in the key of B natural (which seems unlikely) Why the > speed-up ? I don't know. (I haven't checked the others recorded > at this session.) > Vocalion 1108, Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra, > "Forevermore" plays very slow (I forget what key); the song was > published in C, and the orchestration in Db which is the key that > Guy Lombardo recorded it. My guess is that Vocalion wanted the > recording to fill the whole record and so recorded it at a faster > speed. > I'd be interested in other such examples. > Thornton Hagert, Vernacular Music Research.