"Second Connecticut March", Arthur Pryor's Band - Victor 16416-B 
(09/12/1907)

This week's theme: Arthur Pryor

Marches are never really in style - or out of style - they're just marches.

I suspect that marches were popular in the early days of recorded music 
because the bands had enough punch to overcome the rather poor recording 
quality of the early acoustical recording equipment (any recording prior to 
1925).

The 78 rpm record era started in about 1905 so you can see this record from 
1907 is pretty early.

One of the main problems with the early recordings is that they have an 
uneven frequency response, that is to say some frequencies resonated in the 
horn and recorded louder than they should while others were dampened out and 
recorded softer than they should. That uneven response is why most early 
recordings sound like the were recorded inside of a box.

One of the things I do in my filter program is to compare the frequency 
usage with that from a modern recording and increase or reduce the sounds to 
match. It's only an estimate of what it should be, but it generally gives 
the recording a much more natural sound.


Arthur Pryor
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Pryor


National Jukebox
Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/artists/detail/id/531/


Stay Jazzed!
--Tom Swezey

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