Communications. The good old days were good after all.
 

First a review of Bix and Tram from iTunes.

Many years ago I heard CBS television news say Ronald Reagan had died
just two minutes ago and they played some audio of one of his speeches.
It was warped and out of tune. It made me feel hatred for a split
second. I heard a song sung by Frank Sinatra on the radio two weeks
after he died. He sang out of tune. I've never heard Frank Sinatra sing
out of tune before. Someone wants to rewrite history two minutes or two
weeks after it is over. That's what Bix and Tram from iTunes does.
Compare the song Singin' the Blues from iTunes and from the five volume
thirteen CDs Bix Restored. Listen to the radio programs by Professor
Albert Haim at http://www.bixbeiderbecke.com/

The first three or four Beatles albums in the US were bright and had
singing and instruments perfectly in tune. What happened?

Cliff Nelson

Dry your tears, there's more fun for your ears,
"Forward Into The Past" 2 PM to 5 PM, Sundays,
California time,
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Don't be a square or a blockhead; see:
http://bfi.org/node/574
http://library.wolfram.com/infocente...s=1;search_per
son_id=607

Communications. The good old days were good after all.
 

Clifford Nelson wrote:

Many years ago I heard CBS television news say Ronald Reagan had died

That's disgraceful. He was alive until three years ago.

As for the rest of your rant, what were you trying to say?
Did you mean that some recordings were played at the wrong speed
or that someone had altered the pitch of the vocals, leaving the music
unchanged?

--
Eiron.

Communications. The good old days were good after all.
 

In article ,
Eiron wrote:

Clifford Nelson wrote:

Many years ago I heard CBS television news say Ronald Reagan had died

That's disgraceful. He was alive until three years ago.

As for the rest of your rant, what were you trying to say?
Did you mean that some recordings were played at the wrong speed
or that someone had altered the pitch of the vocals, leaving the music
unchanged?

Many years ago I tried an IBM OS/2 operating system and the meaning of
some old email jumped right off of the screen into my brain. I was
embarrassed because I had misunderstood every message before. It was
because of the type font. IBM got what amounts to a copyright on the
entire printed English language when the only thing they made was
typewriters. All type font is slightly cryptic compared to theirs. You
did not understand what I wrote. The first three or four Beatles albums
were part of the most successful communications operation I know of.
Everything was perfectly in tune on those albums on the radio and record
players of that time. What has happened? And I have to ask myself; what
did the Bix Beiderbecke tune "Goose Pimples" sound like on a 78-rpm
record player seventy years ago? My father was a US Army band leader for
twenty years. All five of the bands he lead played the Saint Louis Blues
March better than any recording I've ever heard, even better than Glenn
Miller. Some of the bandsmen were just out of high school. What's wrong
with most recording and playback? Most communications to the public is a
lie somehow for one reason or another.

Cliff Nelson

Dry your tears, there's more fun for your ears,
"Forward Into The Past" 2 PM to 5 PM, Sundays,
California time,
http://www.geocities.com/forwardintothepast/
Don't be a square or a blockhead; see:
http://bfi.org/node/574
http://library.wolfram.com/infocente...s=1;search_per
son_id=607

Communications. The good old days were good after all.
 

In article ,
Clifford Nelson wrote:
Many years ago I tried an IBM OS/2 operating system and the meaning of
some old email jumped right off of the screen into my brain. I was
embarrassed because I had misunderstood every message before. It was
because of the type font. IBM got what amounts to a copyright on the
entire printed English language when the only thing they made was
typewriters.

You should have tried a UK Acorn machine of the time. Anti aliased fonts -
which to this day look better than Ariel on a PC. Which is why I still use
this one for email and news despite having an all singing and dancing PC.
It's quite simply far less tiring to read.

Oh - you can't 'copyright' the English language. You can copyright a
dictionary.

--
*Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.*

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.