Re: Gershwin CD
By Ed Chaban
Jody,
I also have avoided buying the Gershwin Volume II CD for the same reasons Spencer so clearly articulated however strongly.
My main objection is the use of the word "restored" on the liner notes of Volume I. I can't help but think that this was a veiled attempt to put the work into the same league as Thomas Stockham's restorations of Caruso's mechanical phonograph recordings. At least Stockham was using recognized digital signal processing science to remove mechanical horn distortions. My question to Wodehouse is what needed "restoring"? Should I consider running VisiCalc on an IBM-PC running an Apple][ emulator a "restoration"?
I won't comment on the quality of the recording, but I think Wodehouse did us all a disfavor by implying that the Disklavier miraculously resurrected the "Ghost of Gershwin" while the original pneumatic instrument for which the rolls were engineered could not.
JMHO,
-Ed
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