Re: [ARSCLIST] Thirties Stereo

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to clarify..Victor had no intention of producing stereo or binaural
recordings in the 1930s and anything that results from synchronizing discs cut
on two cutters is accidental. The two cutters were for backup, or when they
were simultaneously recording 78 masters and the long-playing "program
transcriptions" that paralleled them. Bell Labs WAS trying for different kinds
of reproduction, as well as trying to isolate the various parts of the spectrum
in an attempt to reduce distortion.

Stereo LPs weren't produced until 1958 (the first was in November 1957).
Stereophonic tapes had been around for a couple of years before that, and of
course Walt and Leopold gave us multi-channels in "Fantasia" in 1940.

The Victor Beethoven 5th PT is by Stokowski and it's just been issued in a
Music And Arts box set of Stokowski's Rarest Recordings. (They weren't all
original recordings..the Schubert Unfinished you have is dubbed from the 1927
78RPM set.)

dl

Roger and Allison Kulp wrote:

> I have the Beecham centenary box,referenced on this
> board,which looks good thanks for the link.While EMI
> was behind the curve,in putting out thier first
> Lps,and getting into stereo,they weren't  the only
> ones.Victor,put out both 33 "Lps",and were into
> stereo,in the 30s.The Lps,were the famous "Program
> Transcriptions',there are a few pop ones,but there is
> also the Stokowski "Unfinished",which i own,and the
> Toscanini Wagner Preludes,which i am actively
> seeking,as well as a Beethoven #5,which i don't know
> who did.(Like to get this too.)
>
>   As for stereo,I am aware of two systems.There is a
> very cumbersome Victor system,that used synchronized
> tandem turntables,with the left,and right channels,on
> two different records.I am aware of recordings of this
> type,by Duke Ellington,which I heard,when they were
> issued on CD,several years ago.
>
>   And then there was Bell Telephone/Laboratories,with
> thier famous Stokowski recordings,of 1931,issued on
> private Lps,by Ma Bell,in 1979. Quoting from the liner
> notes "Another Bell Labs innovationfrom this era  was
> stereophonic recording and reproduction.As the quality
> of sound systems improved,some kinds of distortion
> became noticeable.A.C.Keller and I.S. Rafuse concieved
> a way of reducing them by seperating the high and low
> frequencies and recording them on parallel tracks on
> the same record.Later they fond a way of recording two
> complete sound tracks in one groove and using a single
> pickup to reproduce both tracks simultaneously with
> minimum interference.From this came the recording of
> two full range bands from left and right microphonesin
> the same groove-the stereo technique perfected by
> Keller and Rafuse in 1938.
>
>   But Stereophonic records needed needed expensive
> pickups and two amplifiers and speakers,so it was
> difficult to find a market during the depression era
> of the 1930s.It wasn't until after World War II that
> stereo recordings and equipment for the home became
> popular."
>
>  I have a duplicate of one of these Lps next to me,in
> a pile I want to stick on eBone.I can't get thier new
> photo upload system to work on my Mac here.If anyone
> can help me,please contact me offlist.
>                                  Roger Kulp
>
> --- Steven Smolian <smolians@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The record was issued by Symposium, pressed from
> > masters.
> >
> > Steven Smolian
> >
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> > From: "Frank Strauss" <fbsdmd@xxxxxxxxx>
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> > Subject: [ARSCLIST] Thirties Stereo
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> > > Interesting thread on the Classical message board
> > of BBC 3:
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F2620064?thread=3571327
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