Alexander Mac Donald wrote:
Re Nigel Gatherer's comments on Skinner's new CD
I share your opinions completely on Skinner as a composer, a huge
admirer and on his playing, not the biggest fan of his playing and
that it seems exaggerated, showy...
At Stuart Eydmann's talk at Fiddle 2002,
would still sound fast. At least that's
the sense I get from my reading about him and his playing.
John
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From: Kate Dunlay or David Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [scots-l] Re: J. Scott Skinners new CD
Date: Fri, Nov 22, 2002, 9:35 AM
I like the album
Can't you mathematically 'correct for' poor cylinder speed control to get an
idea of what speed he was playing at?.
Seems that if you know the info about the apparent pitch and the apparent
tempo, and one makes a few basics assumptions: such as the tune should be
played in the key of ?? and the
I like the album as a historical document, to hear how Skinner played,
what he played, what speed he played at, and so on.
I have that old vinyl LP also. You can't actually tell at what speed
Skinner played from the LP because, although it may have faithfully
reproduced the cylinders are
It wouldn't take too much for them to digitally get the recordings down
to the correct speed by using reference notes and comparing them their
pitch if it was correctly tuned. I hope they did that on these new
reissue recordings.
I like the album as a historical document, to hear how Skinner
Kate Dunlay wrote:
I like the album as a historical document, to hear how Skinner
played, what he played, what speed he played at, and so on.
...You can't actually tell at what speed Skinner played from the LP
because, although it may have faithfully reproduced the cylinders
are whatever,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone mentioned the new CD of J. Scott Skinners original
recordings which were recorded by him between 1905 1922?
I haven't heard the CD, but the majority of it will have been issued
before in vinyl format, which I have. I expect that the tracks have
been
