Three Tune Tuesday - Feb 28

It's time again for Three Tune Tuesday, that day of the week where members of the Hive community shares three songs of their liking with the rest of the community.

I know, I post Three Tune Tuesday on Wednesday. It's done by design! I run a Three Tune Tuesday livestream on Tuesday, then post the songs the next day. Want to be the first to hear them? Tune in live!

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I take a slow, relaxing approach to Three Tune Tuesday: I like to share pre-1924 78rpm songs from my collection, and record them while playing on an appropriate time-period windup phonograph. I encourage you to take a few moments and slow down with me. Settle down, close your eyes, and take yourself back.. way back.. in time, to a distant uncle's parlour in the early 1920's. There are comfortable seats, pleasant conversation, and old music.

On this, this last day of February, I wanted to do something a little different and play some music from some phonographs that I don't play as often. To that end I chose my Standard Model E phonograph from the Standard Phonograph Company of the 1910s and my London Upright Edision Diamond Disc Player, also from the 1910s. Rounding songs out is my old trusty go-to Victrola VV-IX.

Jamestown Dixie

I have a small box of records that fit on the Standard Phonograph. Records for the "Standard" have a non-standard size spindle hole which is larger than what other phonographs had, though otherwise recording and playback is the same. It is very similar to the difference between 45rpm and 33rpm records. I chose a random record from this box and came out with Jamestown Dixie.

Most of the records printed by the Standard Phonograph Company were reprints licensed from Columbia, and I'm sure this one is, too. I do not know who performed this song, though I'm incredibly confident that it was recorded in the 1910s.

Sweet Man

Next up was a random selection from my four boxes of Edison records. Edison records, called "Edison Diamond Discs," are not compatible with other phonographs, and can only be played on an Edison Diamond Disc player which, in this case, is my London Upright. Per Wikipedia:

They were named Diamond Discs because the matching Edison Disc Phonograph was fitted with a permanent conical diamond stylus for playing them. Diamond Discs were incompatible with lateral-groove disc record players, e.g. the Victor Victrola, the disposable steel needles of which would damage them while extracting hardly any sound. Uniquely, they are just under 1⁄4 in (6.0 mm; 0.235 in) thick.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Disc_Record)

Frankly, Edison records and phonographs were quite superior to it's competitors of the day: the phonographs were sturdier and had less wear and tear on the records, and the sound is so much better. The motor in the Edison's was responsible for moving the stylus across the record, unlike the other phonographs of the day, where the groove itself pulled the stylus along the record. This resulted in records that lasted longer and sounded better. The flip side is that both the phonographs and records were more expensive, the lack of compatibility limited their wide spread use, and Edison's insistence that new jazz music not be recorded on his label were the major causes of this label's decline.

Sweet Man was a composition performed by the Golden Gate Orchestra, founded by one of my favourite band leaders, Paul Whiteman.

Meditation

My third selection of the day is a random selection of violin music from my Victrola collection. Mischa Elman was a Ukrainian born violinist who played worldwide and recorded about exclusively on the Victrola red label, which was Victor's premier label. Meditation is a calming song with violin and piano.

Three Tune Tuesday (TTT) is initiated by @ablaze.

I run a live stream of my TTT songs every Tuesday at 12:00pm EDT, then take that stream and share the songs from it here, on Hive, on Wednesday (or occasionally Thursday). These songs are all old pre-1923 78rpm records from my collection, played on my antique phonographs and recorded with a well placed microphone. Like what you hear? Come listen live!

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