"David Looser" wrote in message
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"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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A whole generation has missed out
on vinyl, which, for many, holds a deep fascination.

Clearly it does for you.

Not really (snip)

That's not the impression I get from reading your posts here ;-)

LOL:-) Well, I have a large collection of both
vinyl and CD but I cannot resist "putting a spanner
in thew works" now and again on anti-vinyl groups
such as this one. It's fun to see the man from Detroit
turn apoplectic, and start to rant and scream about
"vinyl bigots", etc etc:-)

I look after my LP record collection with care, and clean the
surfaces often. I have two high-grade turntables of my own,
EMT948 and 401/SME3012/V15III and these give me
very good results indeed. Due to the huge amount of music
not available on CD, I cannot possibly even consider life
without a turntable.

Yes you are right. But your 35mm mag stripe material is not
available to most people, as are LPs are from the charity
shop, and a 35mm MWA( Albrecht) recorder/reproducer
is pretty hard to find too:-)


It's precisely the inaccessibility of these technologies that makes them
fascinating IMO. Apart from 4-track "CinemaScope" mag stereo I'm also
interested in the elaborate "Fantasound" system used to record and
reproduce the soundtrack of Fantasia, for which no original recordings or
sound prints survive (the oldest surviving version of the Fantasia
soundtrack is a 1955 vintage magnetic film copy).

You seem, to share a parallel interest with a former colleague
of mine, now working as an AD in TV, who is very knowledgeable
on the subject of Fantasia from both the technical and the artistic angle.

And from another technology I'm also fascinated by the pre-war Baird
240-line TV system used on alternate weeks at Ally Pally from Sept 1936 to
Feb 1937. For which not only does no hardware survive, but most of the
documentation was destroyed in the Crystal Palace fire of 1936.

Do you know people with a similar interest? Are there discussion
groups for such subjects? It an important part of the British
broadcasting heritage.

But I accept that I'm unusual in finding this stuff interesting.

Probably not as unusual as you may think. Even in a smallish
city like HKI I know two people who have 16mm projectors
at home, in purpose-built rooms. One of them is a great
Bogart buff, the other is fascinated with Hitchcock. Both have
a huge collection of films. Hitchcock's composer, Bernard
Hermann was one of my tutors while I was in the UK, so
I watch these films with interest.

Most people, especially young people IME, couldn't care less about vintage
audio-video technology. And I am far from convinced that "many" people are
fascinated by vinyl.

I come into contact with large numbers of young musicians.
There is a great deal of interest in British popular music of
the 1960s. These young players scoured the second hand
shops looking for music in which they are interested. It didn't
take them long to get hooked on vinyl. I am on the committee
of a "gramophone society". We have recently agreed to make
our premises and equipment available to a group of you music
students who want to listen to their music on the best possible
equipment available to them. I find this trend both interesting
and encouraging.

It's a sunny but "crisp" morning- -24.5C. I don't think I shall
be taking lunch in the garden. I have lit a roaring log fire -
no gig till this evening:-)

Iain