No, it's not online, is still firmly in the development stage, but a pal-o-mine is ready to take my MP3s and artist profiles and tune info and make it happen.
Are any of y'all interested in such arcana?
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Hey guys, here's the photo Button tried to hush up:
"Dressed as a giant leprechaun, 'The Phantom Button' hams it up, throwing beads to the crowd assembled along Michigan Avenue during the St. Patrick's Day parade last weekend."
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
You're just jealous, Dick, you know that the ladies have learned a thing or two from Marti Gras about what to do when someone offers to throw beads to them.
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
So Irish Music isn't the only 'old tradition' you are keeping alive over there Button. Seems that Columbus started it all on October 12, 1492: http://www.thefurtrapper.com/trade_beads.htm
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Great idea! Pleeease let us all know when it's up and running!
Another good site, along similar lines, popped up here in a discussion about accordion player J. Kimmel some time back:
It's cylinders, not discs like yours, but there's a few good pipe tunes, notably Donnybrook Fair. It's about time someone put the 78's up online... they're disappearing. I try to snatch 'em up on eBay and they arrive insured, but in pieces.
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Sounds great.... are you using any programs to clean up hiss, noise, or are they all in great condition?
I use a program called "Diamond Cut" that is geared towards music restoration. I don't know about the cost or anything, the person who wrote it gave it to me.... but I believe if you hunt the web you can find it. It is really good..... i use it for hiss removal from some of my own recordings. You can do it in percentages which is great, and bypass the actual music somehow so you don't get music removal with pop,hiss,crackle and noise removal. I think the creator designed it to restore cylinders for the Edison Museum.
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Hey Phantom Butt - Enya hasn't made any 78s as far as I know, the Beatles were available on 78 in India though.
I hadn't heard of Diamond Cut - sounds like something you'd read about in High Times...I have Adobe Audition, which has OK noise reducers but some of them take forever to run. Some of my dubs are very good quality, others not so hot. My hope is that people with better quality stuff might offer some more hi-fi cuts if possible.
Michael Coleman's O'Dowds/Star of Munster,
Paddy Cronin - Templehouse/Duke of Leinster,
Denis Murphy - Fisherman's/Welsh's
Paddy Killoran - Down the Bown/Gatehouse Maid
plus tunes from Danny O'Donnel, Leo Rowsome, Tom Morrisson, Peter Conlon & Michael Grogan.
These are playable but not downloadable. I've captured them however and would be happy to email them to anyone who wants them.
which has loads of sound samples, some more recent (from LPs), some of which are pretty readily available on commericial reissues or compiliations. Others aren't though. I haven't pulled these down yet.
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Tom -- the clips are downloadable, unless that's what you meant by 'captured.' For anyone else, just right-click the hyperlink of the tune you want, and then select 'save target as' from the menu. Then it's all yours. It will save the file to wherever you want it, not just the link. I'm scurrying up a folder full of tunes for a backup disc as I type.
Thanks a ton for the links, I wonder if these guys outbid me for any of the 78s the tunes came from... often, I'll see the winners put the discs back up for auction a few weeks later.
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
gravelwalks,
thanks for the tip. I didn't realize it was so easy.
Yes, it's too bad some folks see the old records as a financial investment, especially because excessive mailing increases the likelihood of breakage, though I suppose the big archives already have good copies, so the loss isn't absolute in most cases.
But I have no beef with McGraw or the Juneberry site since they make some great recordings available to others--more than most collectors, or even official archives do.
The recordings on McGraw's site are of fine quality. I wonder if he'd put up more if someone asked him?
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Greetings,
I have twenty-two 78s with Irish and Scottish music I'm having trouble finding out about their value. Does anyone know where I could find such info? Labels are: Silvertone, Perfect, Coumbia, Edison, Copley, Victor, Decca, and Lindstrom.
My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
No, it's not online, is still firmly in the development stage, but a pal-o-mine is ready to take my MP3s and artist profiles and tune info and make it happen.
Are any of y'all interested in such arcana?
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by KLR
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
yes!
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by elvis2440
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
great!
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by On Sabbatical
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Cool beans! Go Kevin!
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Will Harmon
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Sure!
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Bob himself
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Well done kevin- oops good job, etc
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by I_Fel
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RPM? What's that? Rural Potato Music?
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Phantom Button
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Now come on PB, you know we mustn't refer to the famine here!
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Ptarmigan
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But seriously Kevin, sounds fascinating. Good Enya!
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Ptarmigan
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Enya made 78s?
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Phantom Button
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Sorry Button, it's my corruption of a local expression - "Good On Ya" - nicked from a Neighbours show, I think!
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Ptarmigan
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Hey guys, here's the photo Button tried to hush up:
"Dressed as a giant leprechaun, 'The Phantom Button' hams it up, throwing beads to the crowd assembled along Michigan Avenue during the St. Patrick's Day parade last weekend."
http://info.detnews.com/photoblog/index.cfm
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Ptarmigan
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
You're just jealous, Dick, you know that the ladies have learned a thing or two from Marti Gras about what to do when someone offers to throw beads to them.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Phantom Button
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Shucks Button, I thought that old settlers custom of trading beads for 'pleasures of the flesh' had died out in the 1890s, over there?
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Ptarmigan
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
So Irish Music isn't the only 'old tradition' you are keeping alive over there Button. Seems that Columbus started it all on October 12, 1492:
http://www.thefurtrapper.com/trade_beads.htm
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Ptarmigan
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Brilliant idea, Kevin! Tell us when it goes live!
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by kris
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Wow! Go for it.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Clear Drops
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Great idea! Pleeease let us all know when it's up and running!
Another good site, along similar lines, popped up here in a discussion about accordion player J. Kimmel some time back:
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php
It's cylinders, not discs like yours, but there's a few good pipe tunes, notably Donnybrook Fair. It's about time someone put the 78's up online... they're disappearing. I try to snatch 'em up on eBay and they arrive insured, but in pieces.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by gravelwalks
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Great idea Kevin, keep us informed.
Off topic......Ptarmigan, what time zone is Detroit in ? EST (-5 GMT) here in Florida
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Strathfoyle
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Sounds great.... are you using any programs to clean up hiss, noise, or are they all in great condition?
I use a program called "Diamond Cut" that is geared towards music restoration. I don't know about the cost or anything, the person who wrote it gave it to me.... but I believe if you hunt the web you can find it. It is really good..... i use it for hiss removal from some of my own recordings. You can do it in percentages which is great, and bypass the actual music somehow so you don't get music removal with pop,hiss,crackle and noise removal. I think the creator designed it to restore cylinders for the Edison Museum.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by irisnevins
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Hey Phantom Butt - Enya hasn't made any 78s as far as I know, the Beatles were available on 78 in India though.
I hadn't heard of Diamond Cut - sounds like something you'd read about in High Times...I have Adobe Audition, which has OK noise reducers but some of them take forever to run. Some of my dubs are very good quality, others not so hot. My hope is that people with better quality stuff might offer some more hi-fi cuts if possible.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by KLR
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
It wasn't me -- Dick said Enya was on 78s.
All kidding aside -- it sounds like a worthy and useful project.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Phantom Button
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
http://www.diamondcut.com/
it is made for restoration work as far as I know. I think you can get a free demo version.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by irisnevins
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Ted McGraw has a few mp3s from 78s up at http://tedmcgraw.com/recimages/fset2.html, including
Michael Coleman's O'Dowds/Star of Munster,
Paddy Cronin - Templehouse/Duke of Leinster,
Denis Murphy - Fisherman's/Welsh's
Paddy Killoran - Down the Bown/Gatehouse Maid
plus tunes from Danny O'Donnel, Leo Rowsome, Tom Morrisson, Peter Conlon & Michael Grogan.
These are playable but not downloadable. I've captured them however and would be happy to email them to anyone who wants them.
There's also
http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/ListenToIrishDance.htm,
which has loads of sound samples, some more recent (from LPs), some of which are pretty readily available on commericial reissues or compiliations. Others aren't though. I haven't pulled these down yet.
If anybody knows of any other sites, post away.
What you're doing is greatly appreciated, Kevin!
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Tom Sawyer
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Thanks for those links, Tom! I never knew they were there.
# Posted on March 16th 2006 by Bob himself
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Tom -- the clips are downloadable, unless that's what you meant by 'captured.' For anyone else, just right-click the hyperlink of the tune you want, and then select 'save target as' from the menu. Then it's all yours. It will save the file to wherever you want it, not just the link. I'm scurrying up a folder full of tunes for a backup disc as I type.
Thanks a ton for the links, I wonder if these guys outbid me for any of the 78s the tunes came from... often, I'll see the winners put the discs back up for auction a few weeks later.
# Posted on March 17th 2006 by gravelwalks
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
Aye, guid ane!
# Posted on March 17th 2006 by wodeninjun
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gravelwalks,
thanks for the tip. I didn't realize it was so easy.
Yes, it's too bad some folks see the old records as a financial investment, especially because excessive mailing increases the likelihood of breakage, though I suppose the big archives already have good copies, so the loss isn't absolute in most cases.
But I have no beef with McGraw or the Juneberry site since they make some great recordings available to others--more than most collectors, or even official archives do.
The recordings on McGraw's site are of fine quality. I wonder if he'd put up more if someone asked him?
# Posted on March 17th 2006 by Tom Sawyer
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Ted told me he occasionally changes his selection - it used to be a different batch of records.
# Posted on March 17th 2006 by KLR
Re: My new website - Irish Music on 78 RPM records
I would definitely listen to such a site! Thanks!
# Posted on March 23rd 2006 by vonnieestes
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Greetings,
I have twenty-two 78s with Irish and Scottish music I'm having trouble finding out about their value. Does anyone know where I could find such info? Labels are: Silvertone, Perfect, Coumbia, Edison, Copley, Victor, Decca, and Lindstrom.
Thanks.
# Posted on November 22nd 2006 by dshiloh