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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I hope you can send more info on the current
technology. It would be fun to apply it to 78's made after electrical
recording came into being in 1923. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ron Poire </FONT></DIV>
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<A title=ricb@pianostemmer.no href="mailto:ricb@pianostemmer.no">Richard
Brekne</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 25, 2008 3:54
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [CAUT] Grieg Experiment</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi Fred and all interested.<BR><BR>Glad you liked it. I
thought it was really cool myself and am very much looking forward to the
CD. I should mention the sound of Griegs piano as played by Mr.
Slåttebrekk is raw mic sound. This was just a tidbit the producer sent
me to let me get an idea of how we all did getting this old lady to sound, and
how well the project as a whole is going. I thought the piano sounded
very well indeed... bringing it down to 436 helped enormously. I wish you all
could have heard up close and personal the difference this pitch change made.
<BR><BR>I also want to echo your sentiments about Sigurds ability to match
Edvards style. Again.. sitting and watching them at work... they picked
the old digitized wax roles apart phrase by phase. The piece you heard
was about 3 days work. The final CD will be about 30 minutes of music I
believe. We were all out there for 4 weeks in the late fall and another
2 weeks in Jan / Feb. They also have done some work in Oslo on a D, but
I am unsure as to whether they will use the material from there. They
fell in love with Edvards instrument. <BR><BR>I dont know exactly what
kind of processes were used to digitize the wax rolls. I just know there
is another method being used then what was used on the files we had available
and that this other method is supposed to be quite superior. I can get
Tony to write a bit about that and forward it along I think... if you all are
interested.<BR><BR>Anyways... cool you all found it enjoyable. It was/is
probably the most enjoyable project I've ever had the privilege to be a
part of.<BR><BR>Cheers<BR>RicB<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Hi Ric,<BR><BR>Fascinating! Amazing job of matching both
style of playing and timber of the instrument. It certainly sounds
convincingly like a re-creation from the past. Do you know to what extent
the digitized version of the wax cylinder recording was manipulated
electronically, if at all? (I guess there is bound to be some manipulation,
even if not intentional, in the mechanical process of cylinder to needle to
"trumpet" and then placement of mikes and setting gain and
whatnot).<BR><BR>Regards,<BR>Fred Sturm<BR>University of New
Mexico<BR>fssturm at unm.edu</BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>