I have an original 12 inch disc of this 1929 recording, with a different selection than the one heard here. It doesn't sound as good on my HMV portable but is pretty authentic.
They really designed and built the Capehart record changer as a well made machine with gears, cams, and chains. A very far cry from the I-pod or smart phone in your pocket that gets streaming music. We have come a looong way!
Our rich black culture keeps running deeper and deeper. I look at her with such pride and dignity and strength because of the time period she had to struggle in And don’t get it twisted we still do.
I have a Columbia that has a similar set up on the part where you put the needles I have one that has three different tips one's a diamond till turn it sideways rotates has two different needles it has a wonderful sound to it
Fascinating how in The old days singers could sing the most ribald lyrics in such a dignified fashion and everyone knew what they were talking about but it didn’t need it to be spelt out like todays songwriters are so blatant that the songs just aren’t interesting theirs no mystique Plus those old singers could sing with just a piano and you could tell they could sing . Wow that’s fascinating
The best quality,I’ve ever heard 78s play-I don’t know if it’s the stylus,the mechanism or the newness/not played very much record ?? Normally 78s sound very scratchy-these don’t ?? I also have another question-can this unit play other types of records(LP Albums,7”45s)???
I believe the Edison diamond disks were 81rpm so the tempo would be slightly slower on a 78prof machine than recorded. I suppose you could adjust the speed control to compensate.
Nowhere near as good as the later Pears/Sitwell recording with Anthony Collins conducting. Obviously the 1929 recording here is very poor but even allowing for that, the speakers seem disjointed from the orchestra, while the quality of Lambert's diction and expression fall well short of Peter Pears. Plus maybe surprisingly, Edith Sitwell enunciates her poems far more effectively in the later 1954 recording (which is also more complete).
Edison's diamond disc were well made and so were the machines, but very limited the needle vibrated up and don. So it was very limited in what it could record. You see regular records record on both side of the v grove. I did see a stereo Edison few years back at shop called Ralphs old time pianos. He has some disc and played on for me . Two toner arms and you had to match the start spots exactly or the were be so out of phase you wanted to scream,. i saw the same system in the early fifty's. But never have I seen a sterol Edison before or since. Ralph passed and his shop has been sold out . So I have no idea what happened to it.
I heard this on Radio 3 a few days ago. I've never really appreciated Schubert lieder before, but Plunket Green's rendition, in English, I do appreciate. It is a pity this is the only one he recorded. I wonder if a modern singer can take up the challenge? There would be a whole new audience if they did.
LE MONDE S'ARRETE QUAND NOUS ENTENDONS CE BIJOU, TOUT EST PARFAIT, Marian AVAIT UNE DICTION EXTRAORDINAIRE QUE BEAUCOUP DE CHANTEUSES ACTUELLES POURRAIENT IMITER;
sad nobody has commented for 13 years. Their loss. Novaes the great artistry and honesty speak to you, no matter the poor recording techniques then, I don't care, but what is spoken in the music and playing are loud and clear and sadly becoming a thing of the past. Frankly, I'd rather hear playing like Novaes, Freire, Joseph Villa, rather than 1000 Yuja Wangs or the like.
I was fascinated by your experiment. I have always felt that one of the shortcomings of Edison's later machines was that there was no easy way get a bigger horn on anything. With some spare time and some homemade crane parts, I put a big 12 panel cygnet horn on an Amberola 30, and it sounded great. I did the same thing with a big horn on a Gem!. You can play a Diamond Disc on a modern turntable and amplifier only to realize that the sound put into the record was always greater than the machine's ability to reproduce.
My grandmother loved this singer, as she is from her era. When nana was very old with Alzheimers I went out to find a CD of Ethel Waters and it was like medicine. She always came back when shed here Dinah, or Bertha or one of those good old good ones from Ethel. I listen now just to remember my Grand mom , Thank you
Hi, sanfranphono.... My 2-65 hardware is all black. Would that be tarnished? You can see places on the arm that appear to be brass color. Everything in your video that is gold, on mine has that black. If it is tarnish, what would you recommend to correct?
