comments interspersed below... Dan Kjeldgaard wrote: > Bob also totally scr()wed me with Orthophonic and Edison "rebuilds". > Perhaps he'd lost his alleged touch by then, but both were the worst > botch-jobs ever heard by my ears. Sad.
i'd not heard of this. most folks were polarized either for or against him and his methods, but i'd never heard of anyone thinking he'd lost it. all of the units he did for me are still singing sweetly, although i will admit that some of the experimentals he sent me towards the end were not as successful...but i didn't pay for those. > > My problem with later Edison discs: although the higher frequencies were > fine, after about 1921 most of the recordings were of cheesy little > orchestras which failed to produce much "punch" and the lower frequencies > were absent. I have a feeling that once Edison lost interest in the > recording activities, due to age and deafness, it went downhill. In other > words: Jaudas' Society Orchestra in 1917 makes a better impression than > the > Golden Gate in 1925, allowing for differences in the musical content. i disagree on this, although the musical content may be coloring my opinion. the teens stuff generally leaves me cold. but many of the acoustic GG Orchestra and BA Rolfe sides really are full and clean and jusssst right. check out GGO "Sweet Man" (516xx, i think) - the first note of the cornet solo will challenge your belief system that it wasn't electrically recorded. Sez > me, anyway - and I know that is quite subjective ! > > Would rather hear a good Victor Military Band disc on the Edison than on a > Victrola, btw .... i have a funky adaptor that's made to play DDs on an orthophonic u-tube. its diamond is gone...but someday i'll play a DD on my credenza. should be extremely interesting. -- peter
