If you don't like it, get some facts that can be backed up and change the article- that's the whole point of Wikipedia!
Eric Stott (Just finished correcting a few small problems in a Freemasonry article) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Wright" <esrobe...@hotmail.com> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l@oldcrank.org> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 8:44 PM Subject: [Phono-L] P.S. Wikipedia sucks. > Bad news about good ol' Wikipedia. They just lost my business permanently > with the following quote, from their entry for Fred Gaisberg: > > "A musically talented youngster, he encountered the fledgling recording > technology in the early 1890s, and got a job working for the 'Graphophone' > [sic] company in America. Sound quality and short playing time, however, > meant that recordings were more an amusing novelty than a serious means of > reproducing music. In this decade the first of the recording industry's > format wars was taking place, with the original cylinder recordings > gradually being ousted by the superior and more convenient flat disc. > Gaisberg played an important part in this, helping to establish 78 > revolutions per minute as the standard playing speed and shellac as the > standard material for making discs." > > Of all the inaccuracies, generalizations, and needless oversimplifying > there, I'll only address one glaring falsehood: the only disc records > ever > capable of competing sonically with Edison's cylinders were Edison's > Diamond > Discs. Non-Edison disc records never even approached Edison cylinders' > tonal neutrality and naturalness, or got near their frequency response > extension in the top end, until Columbia's Viva-tonals, which came out > well > past the timeline of this article's first two paragraphs. Too bad the > world's greatest inventor was the world's worst A&R man. > > r. > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > Phono-L@oldcrank.org > > Phono-L Archive > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > > Support Phono-L > http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank >
