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Old 3rd Aug 2020, 1:24 pm   #24
Ted Kendall
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Default Re: 1950's/1960's music recording

I did some work for such a reissue label a while ago, and all the material was sourced from vinyl, mainly compilation LPs. One track started with the wrong item for two seconds, followed by fast-winding noises and then a slurring start two bars into the right track - and that was the only surviving source. Lacquers were expensive in Jamaica, it seems....and then there was the reissue of some pioneering Mahler symphony recordings which had to come back from several copies of the original LPs, cutting around the once-per-revolution scrunches on different copies and confirmimg that the recorded pitch was accurate - that took a 'phone call to Vienna, which confirmed that the Philharmonic was still using A=446 in the early 1950s.

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