Re: [ARSCLIST] Hatto Hoax (was Pristine Audio (?!))

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Biel wrote:
> Graeme Jaye mentions that Andrew Rose of Pristine Audio was the one who
> uncovered the "Hatto scandal."   I had heard a little about this, but on the
> Pristine site is a link to the entire story.
> http://www.pristineclassical.com/HattoHoax.html   You all ought to take a look
> at all of this information because it is a fascinating story of the technology
> of faking the identity of sound recordings, and the technology of discovering
> them.

There was a notorious example of this in the 70s when Boyd Neel's Unicorn 
recording of the Brandenburg Concertos was reissued on Olympic, and he screamed 
bloody murder because the tempos had been altered. No idea why, since it was 
already a 2-LP set.
> On a lighter note, I wish we could convince David Hamilton and Tom Owen to
> release the recordings of The Caruso Brothers.  This is even better than the
> Nelson Eddy recordings for Willie, the Operatic Whale.
The Caruso Brothers recorded "Short'nin' Bread"?

dl