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Re: [ARSCLIST] Thirties Stereo
They are not common,but they do turn up.I have both of
them,and will sell my duplicate of Volume One as soon
as I can.I have read,more than once,where these Lps
were given away as subscriptin premiums,by The
Philadelphia Orchestra,but this may not be correct.
Roger Kulp
--- Aaron Levinson <aaron.levinson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a copy of the Bell Labs stereo experiments.
> Volume 1 was issued
> by Bell Labs on its own label in 1979.
> It is called EARLY HI-FI Leopold Stokowski/The
> Philadelphia
> Orchestra/1931-1932.
> That is where they were stolen from if I am not
> mistaken. There was a
> second volume as well with
> different selections issued in 1980 of all Wagner.
> The originals now
> reside in the National Archive.
> My understanding is that these recordings were given
> away as premiums
> for contributing to Public
> Radio fund drives and were never commercially
> available. I have the
> covers of both volumes but Volume
> 2 had a manufacturing error and contains the music
> from Volume 1. The
> labels are right and they inserted
> a xerox of the liner notes from Volume 1 to
> accompany the actual
> selections included. I am in Philadelphia
> and perhaps this arrangement was done exclusively
> for the Philadelphia
> public radio station though I somehow
> doubt it, as the liner notes say they are making
> these recording
> available to "historians of science, music and
> other interested people". Hope this helps.
>
> Aaron Levinson
>
>
>
>
> Larry Friedman wrote:
> > Ironically enough, I recently went on a search for
> the Stokowski Bell Labs
> > recordings, and the only thing I found was that
> Iron Needle disk. I have
> > never bought anything by this label for obvious
> reasons, but I had no choice
> > here, so I did. The transfer is actually not bad.
> There is a certain bloom
> > to the sound that I liked. I couldn't help but
> wonder where they had stolen
> > the recording from.
> >
> >
> >
> > Soon after I bought the Iron Needle disk (that has
> about half of the
> > recordings), I found a "private" disk of all of
> the Bell recordings pressed
> > by Theo van der Burg of the Netherlands. His site
> is
> > http://www.med.hro.nl/burtw/. I have nothing to do
> with Her Burg, except
> > that I am a happy customer of his. His product is
> extremely well done, very
> > clear and open, and he was kind enough to send the
> set out to me even though
> > PayPal had bollixed up the payment. I imagine the
> rest of his transfers are
> > equally as good.
> >
> >
> >
> > I heard the Ellington "accidental" stereo disks a
> number of years ago. They
> > were pressed and released, but I have forgotten by
> whom. The sound was good
> > and certainly less distracting than the Fantasia
> sound, where each choir of
> > instruments keeps bouncing around from speaker to
> speaker. As I remember,
> > the Ellingtons had a very nice spread. I will try
> and find out on which
> > label they were transferred.
> >
> >
> >
> > -Larry Friedman
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >>
> >
> >
> >> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion
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> >>
> > [mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx]
> >
> >
> >> On Behalf Of joe@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >
> >
> >> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 10:17 AM
> >>
> >
> >
> >> To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >
> >
> >> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Thirties Stereo
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> The reference found on the web points to a CD on
> the Iron Needle label,
> >>
> >
> >
> >> and for me that is not a thrilling
> recommendation. Has anyone heard this
> >>
> >
> >
> >> CD and care to comment on the quality of the
> transfer?
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> Joe Salerno
> >>
> >
> >
> >> Industrial Video Services
> >>
> >
> >
> >> PO Box 273405
> >>
> >
> >
> >> Houston Texas 77277-3405
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> 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
> >>>
> >
>
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