You took the words right out of my keyboard.
(Except that it's "fibre" not "finer" needles. Don't ask me why - I'm
not that old - but it's here in black and white in front of me in The
Songs of Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, Elm Tree Books and St
George's Press, 1977 price £6.50, also contained in - I believe - the
CD At the Drop of Another Hat).
It should be compulsory listening to all those beginning to show the
symptoms of the unfortunate condition of audiophilia, especially the
short monologue in the middle. At least they'll have been warned what
people outside the asylum will think of them. Sigh. And carry on
regardless, no doubt.
"The ear can't hear as high as that,
Still, I ought to please any passing bat
With my high fidelity."
On 20 Sep 2006, at 08:28, ceejay wrote:
"And then they amplified it,
It was much LOUDER then.
So you sharpened finer needles
To make it soft again"
("A Song of Reproduction" - check it out if you think that audiophilia
didn't start until the 70s or 80s...)
Ceejay
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