In 1976, I doubt there was much choice of a mic.
Certainly, back then, there wouldn't have been a mic/pickup suitable for a HG.
Probably just a straight forward mic held near to the instrument (I recall a
friend of mine from Radio Merseyside who recorded the local Folk clubs etc just
had a reel to reel tape recorder - 7 and a bit inches per second -and a
standard dynamic mic and in mono as well ).
No mini disc recorders or anything like them then, of course and cassette
recorders had only recently come in and ran too slowly for decent music
recording (only just over one inch per second).
Some of those recordings sound as if they were recorded "in the field" so that
may account for it (my chien certainly sounds much louder on a standard mic).
30 years is a long time ago where electronics are concerned. Mics picked up all
sorts of things (like tapping on a table, foot tapping etc) when doing live
recordings.
Just a thought.
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: Minstrel Geoffrey
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: [HG] Available from Smithsonian Folkways records: Henry Vasson
I have noticed, that album, the dog or chen is predominant in the recording.
Is this the nature of the instrument of that type? Did they mic it
incorrectly, but I thought the chen is an accompaniment, not a predominant
sound of the instrument.
Thoughts? Comments?
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Matthew Bullis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello, I was searching the Smithsonian Folkways web site for something
totally different, and noticed that they had a pull-down box titled
instrument. I pulled it down to hurdy gurdy, and this album came up:
http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/containerdetail.aspx?itemid=1502
The album is simply called Hurdy Gurdy music, and was recorded in 1976. It
contains twenty French pieces, and you either have Smithsonian send you a
cd, or you can get it the modern way and download it. They give you two
formats, mp3 and flac. Flac is lossless, and is only needed if you want to
burn a perfect-sounding cd with no mp3 sound loss. The mp3s will do fine if
you want them for an mp3 player though. The pieces seem to be mostly in the
key of C, or at least they were with the samples I picked to listen to.
Anyhow, I thought this might be a cd you'd not heard before, and figured
you'd want to check it out and add it to your collection if you like it.
Thanks a lot.
Matthew
