There is an unofficial CD transfer on the Austrian label Iron Needle (IN
1402), p. 1998. The tracks are The Roman Carnival, Invitation to the
Dance, Scherzo from Midsummer Night's Dream, Prelude & Liebestod - all
in mono
2 Excerpts from the Scriabin Poeme de Feu - in stereo
2 Excerpts from Pictures at an Exhibition - in stereo
2 further excerpts from Pictures at an Exhibition - in mono
The stereo, when is comes is most impressive.
The broadcast I posted failed to mention that the transfer engineer for
the LPs was Ward Marston.. Playing positives with a forked stylus is
difficult enough; for a blind man to do it is amazing. I believe that
Marston cut his teeth, so to speak, on this project.
Steve Abrams
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Early Stereo 1881 and 1931 (Was - Dynadoodoo
The Bell LPs were also nearly impossible to find. I transferred them
to tape years ago from copies at the CBC library, but it took until
last year before I was able to acquire both LPs for myself. They turn
up, but at very high prices on auction lists.
dl
Steve Abrams wrote:
I specified one commonly used player for the Mac that can handle Flac
- VLC. You will find a list of players and decoders for the Mac,
Solaris, Unix and even the Amiga on the Sourceforge site:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html
Your remark that nearly every classical LP collector owns the Bell
LPs is arrogant and stupid. They were never released commercially.
SA
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger and Allison Kulp"
<thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Early Stereo 1881 and 1931 (Was - Dynadoodoo
I had read about the 1881 system,but have never actually heard
anything about it.
Oh,BTW,your file won't play on a Mac.
I would assume the Bell Labs stuff,is from those 1979-80 Lps,that
nearly every classical Lp collector owns.
Don't forget that Edison supposedly had some expensive,and
cumbersome system,that involved three channel/three horn
playback.Perhaps someone could give me more detail.
Roger
Steve Abrams <steve.abrams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: I have uploaded two
files to Mediafire
One file, Bell Labs Keller, has two brief programmes on BBC Radio 3
c. 1981
about the Bell Labs experiments in the early 30s and includes a an
extract
in stereo. I am afraid that Arther Keller does not confirm my story
about
the Black Box. (74MB)
http://www.mediafire.com/?111zkxoddxz
The other file, 1881 Stereo, is a brief Radio 3 broadcast in 1981
about the
1881 stereo transmissions from the Paris Opera, and demonstrates the
sound
characteristic using reconstructed microphones on the stage of Covent
Garden. (27MB)
http://www.mediafire.com/?dfg1lwgi9aj
The files are in Flac format. They can be played directly in
Winamp, VLC
Media Player, Super (c) etc. They can be converted to Wave using
Flac Front
End, Goldwave etc.
The files are taken from a Scotch Metafine tape with Dolby C. The
original
recordings were made by me but the tape I used may be a dubbing.
However,
the sound quality is acceptable.
Steve Abrams
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