Mom's piano recital age 11

Post by **garyb** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:38 pm

<a name="planetz-file"></a><a href="http://www.planetz.com/Pulsar/files/mus ... .MP3"><img src="/forums/images/listen_icon.gif" border="0" alt=" Song"> Song</a> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Genre: classical <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Uses: Pulsar Effects,Pulsar Mixers,p100 masterverb pro psyq samplitude denoise sbc copyright © 2006gbogdanoff _____________________________________ i've just started the task of recovering my mother's pno recitals from 1953-1955 of of old 1/4" mono reel to reel tapes.

here's a snippet. i'll get a little more volume out of this stuff later. i really had to do a bit of massaging to get theses things to sound decent(lots of noise, both hiss and also noise from the motor of the original machine). they're still a little noisy but pretty listenable. i wonder how poorly cared for cdrs will fare after over 40 years...i doubt they'll have much useable after all that time. sometimes in moving forward, we do ourselves no benefit...

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:10 pm

Hope you've got some of her talent man!

The sound is pretty good, ho heesss or noises here, cool work Gary

Post by **hubird** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 7:48 pm

good job you did, and nice playing by your mom, feather light

Post by **garyb** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:57 am

yes, she was pretty good...definitely not bad for 11 years old. me, i got her sense of music, but unfortunately not much of the skill.

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:00 am

On 2006-03-06 01:57, garyb wrote:
...definitely not bad for 11 years old...

absolutely - and she would have been even better if there wasn't the (physical) resistance of the keys against the small child's fingers.
There's a remarkable precision and control, and in some parts I had the impression they just didn't let her perform what she had in mind

Anyway - the source tape must have been pretty good - is it the original ambience or did you add it while processing ?

respect, Tom
can't stand Mozart btw - except his piano pieces

Post by **garyb** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:59 am

added ambiance.

denoising the tape was pretty violent. i wanted to make it sound like a piano again.....

yes, i agree about mozart.

H-Rave · Post by **H-Rave** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:09 am

Excellent!

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:14 pm

May I ask: Does your man still play piano?

Post by **garyb** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:59 pm

my man??!!

my mother plays very little. she met my father, an accomplished artist, at 16 and by the time she was 18 i was born and she was married. she gave up her career for his(which he gave up and disappeared 5 or 6 years later) to be a good wife. she was being groomed for fame and did an appearance with the l.a. philharmonic at 15(i think that's the age). it's one of those things in life that turned out fine, but is still kind of a shame....

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Astral Fridge Magnet · Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:15 pm

Nice playing!!! Particularly for an 11 year old. A terrible shame she doesn't play these days. Surely she must get itchy fingers now and then.