The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

is it ok what they did at the 3-minute and 58-second mark?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbobhqVgs1A

That's pretty effective editing. We don't actually see the record breaking.

It looks as though a broken record was used for that floor shot.

It is sad the phonograph replaced the piano.

Derek Bailey, the famous or infamous UK guitarist (studio musician, Swing band player, Flamenco player, and outside, way, way outside the envelope experimental player), once said that the worst thing to happen to music in the UK was the (eventual) post-WWII prosperity that put a phonograph in almost every home. Many people stopped singing and playing. And once the general public had firm ideas of how a piece of music was supposed to sound from listening to it repeatedly on record, they were less accepting of different arrangements performed live. Live musicians started to be forced into doing rigid covers of popular recorded music, rather than being creative with music.

They could have at least turned the radio on, the tubes weren't even glowing when it was being played.

JeffR1 wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:07 pm They could have at least turned the radio on, the tubes weren't even glowing when it was being played.

Nor is there a speaker connected to it.

Steve

ChesterCheetah18 wrote: Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:31 am

JeffR1 wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:07 pm They could have at least turned the radio on, the tubes weren't even glowing when it was being played.

Nor is there a speaker connected to it.

Steve

I thought I saw the speaker down below on the hall table it was sitting on.

ChesterCheetah18 wrote: Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:31 am

JeffR1 wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:07 pm They could have at least turned the radio on, the tubes weren't even glowing when it was being played.

Nor is there a speaker connected to it.

Steve

I thought I saw the speaker down below on the hall table it was sitting on.