Re: [ARSCLIST] Cedar - acoustical recordings

[George Brock-Nannestad <pattac@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad

Don Cox asked:


> On 27/05/07, George Brock-Nannestad wrote:
> 
> 
> >> I would guess that in most cases, if not all, the original room was
> >> not designed at all, apart from such things as putting the piano up
> >> on a platform.
> > 
> > The Gramophone Company
> > in their recording rooms in Hayes (post 1912) had ceilings that could
> > be raised or lowered by rack and pinion according to the task.
> 
> Interesting. Do you have a reference for that?

----- I have seen it with my own eyes, both from below and from the loft. It 
would have been in the early 1980s, when I spent quite some time in the 
archives, before their move. The "studio" had been restored some time prior 
to that, and in itself it was a hard room, with pine panelling. I would be 
surprised if there were no contemporary reports of the restoration.
 
> 
> > 
> > ----- Edison also performed experiments with performers placed on
> > squares drawn on the floor (Harvith & Harvith).
> > 
> Distance from the horn is obviously critical, but that isn't the same as
> the design of the studio. Nowadays, everyone is aware of things like
> live and dead ends, etc.

----- now, we cannot draw a direct line from amateur recording on cylinder 
machines to record companies, but in the manuals for amateurs they already 
then described how to use screens and cubicles for some instruments.


Kind regards,


George