[Dixielandjazz] cut & splice Grandma

[Mike Durham]

Pat Ladd wrote:

Suppose the musician ( or the sound engineer) decides
>that the `Flight of the Bumblebee` a trumpet player has recorded would be
>`more exciting` played a bit faster, or a lot faster, and nudges the speed
>on the recording up a bit. No problem now that the key doesn`t alter with
>speed. How many would agree that was acceptable? Not many, I would hope.

Well Pat, that happened a lot in the past due to the vagaries of recording 
equipment, tape speeds etc. Several QRS items by Clarence Williams play in 
the key of E major, when we know they were almost certainly originally in 
Eb, and arguments still rage over Louis' Cornet Chop Suey.....F or Eb? The 
original Okeh and most subsequent reissues play in E major, too. But no 
screams of outrage - it sounds marvellous at all three speeds/pitches. Not 
sure where that leaves us, though!!!

Mike
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