Re: [scots-l] Re: J. Scott Skinners new CD

2002-11-23 Thread John Erdman
Can't you mathematically 'correct for' poor cylinder speed control to get an idea of what speed he was playing at?. Seems that if you know the info about the apparent pitch and the apparent tempo, and one makes a few basics assumptions: such as the tune should be played in the key of ?? and the

Re: [scots-l] Re: J. Scott Skinners new CD

2002-11-23 Thread Kate Dunlay or David Greenberg
Can't you mathematically 'correct for' poor cylinder speed control to get an idea of what speed he was playing at?. Seems that if you know the info about the apparent pitch and the apparent tempo, and one makes a few basics assumptions: such as the tune should be played in the key of ?? and the

Re: [scots-l] Re: J. Scott Skinners new CD

2002-11-22 Thread Toby Rider
It wouldn't take too much for them to digitally get the recordings down to the correct speed by using reference notes and comparing them their pitch if it was correctly tuned. I hope they did that on these new reissue recordings. I like the album as a historical document, to hear how Skinner