[Dixielandjazz] Transcribing OKOM

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Probably so Mike, if you are using the original recordings, but it also 
could be caused by the person who taped it or re-recorded it from the 
original source as many machines are not properly calibrated and thus 
speed up or slow down and can change the pitch, if you have a variable 
speed control on your machine you might try slowing down the original 
source if you can and bring it back into pitch.

I am no expert on this but I recall having done it a few times in the 
past with an engineer.

  List mate Dick Broadie can shed more light on the subject I am sure if 
he is still on and active these days.

Almost all of the old OKOM recordings that I have sound like that and 
it irks me a lot because "How many years have they been passing that 
stuff around as the ORIGINAL SOUND.  If all those groups sounded that 
bad I am glad I was not there to hear them live :))   But alas I am 
certain they sounded much better in person than on recorded medium of 
the days.   Unfortunately many of today's Dixieland Bands sound just 
like those old records, no wonder kids hated it for so long. :))

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike <mike at railroadstjazzwest.com>
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:33:53 -0700
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Transcribing OKOM

    I notice when I am transcribing solos from OKOM, the pitch tends to 
vary a lot. I was working on a George Brunies solo recorded in 1939, 
and he was about a quarter pitch sharp. Was this due to the recording 
techniques of the day? 
 
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