GG: Hum Damping a/k/a musical reductionism

["Thomas W. Conklin" <tconklin@btc-bci.com>]

Dear friends:

I have read many comments on "improving" Glenn's recordings.  I have
collected and listened to recorded classical music (and live) for more than
50 years including most of Glenn's LP's.  It is my conviction that any
electronic manipulation, including analog to digital, is going to take away
from something that was there in the original and/or replace it with
something that was not there before.  Mainly, what is taken away is
ambiance.  Such detraction will reduce the actual recorded information that
carries with it the perception of musical stage width, height and depth.
Sadly, we cannot bring Glenn back, but even if we could, I suspect he would
still hum because the intensity of his musical expression could not be
limited even by him.  Do we really want to yoke him in?
Bless him.

Tom Conklin
----- Original Message -----
From: BONG <bong@iti.lt>
To: <f_minor@email.rutgers.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 8:45 AM
Subject: Hum damping


> How do they damp Gould's humming? Does the sound itself suffer from such
> damping?
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