Knit,Knit,Knit - Helen Clark, Gladys Rice, Marion Evelyn Cox:1918

[Edisonfan]

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[Inigo]

Very nice! Thanks. I've tried to play it a bit faster, and seems to sound better... yet more natural voices. It's a great recording. Would you like to try it?
Thanks again for such marvellous entertainment!

[Edisonfan]

Very nice! Thanks. I've tried to play it a bit faster, and seems to sound better... yet more natural voices. It's a great recording. Would you like to try it?
Thanks again for such marvellous entertainment!

It’s too slow?

[Inigo]

I really don't know, but I had that feeling when listening to it... These girls sounded like contraltos, but some of them are credited as sopranos. These are obscure voices (I have the same problem with other records featuring Gladys Rice) and it's not clear to me really... But I cannot get ride of that idea. Maybe my ears are not keen to these voices...
At some place there is also a repeated groove, at 0:41 "knit at all" is repeated.
But thanks for that nice and funny song!

[edisonplayer]

This is one of the Diamond Discs that I have in my C250.edisonplayer

[Edisonfan]

This is one of the Diamond Discs that I have in my C250.edisonplayer

Cool!

[CarlosV]

Very nice! Thanks. I've tried to play it a bit faster, and seems to sound better... yet more natural voices. It's a great recording. Would you like to try it?
Thanks again for such marvellous entertainment!

I never encountered a Diamond disc recorded at the wrong speed. Maybe the machine that played for this video was not set to 80 rpm, but given that our friend Edison Player has posted numerous videos of diamond disc recordings, I suppose the speed on his machine is set up correctly. By the way, the voices sound ok to me.

[Edisonfan]

Very nice! Thanks. I've tried to play it a bit faster, and seems to sound better... yet more natural voices. It's a great recording. Would you like to try it?
Thanks again for such marvellous entertainment!

I never encountered a Diamond disc recorded at the wrong speed. Maybe the machine that played for this video was not set to 80 rpm, but given that our friend Edison Player has posted numerous videos of diamond disc recordings, I suppose the speed on his machine is set up correctly. By the way, the voices sound ok to me.

The speed on my S-19 is fine! I checked it with an rpm app on my iPhone.

[CarlosV]

The speed on my S-19 is fine! I checked it with an rpm app on my iPhone.

Iñigo prefers sopranos to contraltos .

[Inigo]

Maybe it's my ears... These voices tend to sound a bit sluggish tho me. It happened the same with a Gladys Rice record I have, NML 1002, singing Lullaby from Erminie and other song. NML records were pressings from other sources, maybe Plaza, etc. Anyway, this sounds slow to me even at 80rpm. Gladys was a soprano... there are sopranos who sound like contraltos, but this one sounded terrible at 78rpm even 80rpm. Another example of a beautiful Vocation I have by Nevada Van Der Veer .. The label is very beautiful, one of those gilded and pale blue and dark blue Vocations... But the sound is very slow. Terrible.
Also happens to me with certain blue Decca's of late 30s, as Andrews Sisters or Boing Crosby. Some of them I've found better at 80-81 rpm than 78, the voices more like in the films. Or the films are faster, or the records are slower....