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In Reply to: RE: 1956 Barbirolli Enigma Variations posted by Tony Lauck on May 04, 2015 at 19:17:25
Here's the Mercury 2-track tape issue at 7½ ips. The HDTT issue is from a 2-track 15 ips copy that they had access to. I guess they didn't have this tape box to scan, although they do often use 7½ ips 2-track and 4-track tapes as a source. The LP has additional music. The recording was made in Manchester's Free Trade Hall. The notes say, "Elgar's orchestral masterpiece provides a stunning demonstration of stereophonic sound reproduction, since each instrument in the orchestra is at one time or another given an opportunity to sing its solo."
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I just went to one of those inflation calculator sites. So let's say you paid $11.95 for this tape in 1958. (This is for HALF of the equivalent LP album, which also had the Purcell-Barbirolli Suite for Strings.) In today's dollars, that would be. . . $97.63. Yikes!
(BTW, I've edited my post below yet again, because I've now figured out that the 50's babe on the cover is depicting puzzlement over the . . . Enigma!)
Indeed, the quizzical expression is over the price too.
If you were a kid, as I was, working at the minimum wage of $1.00 per hour, then $12.00 for a 7.5 IPS two track tape was a lot of money. One year I managed to scrape together enough money for a tape deck, Dynaco Preamp. Citation II amplifier and a pair of KLH-6 speakers. I had enough money left over to buy one pre-recorded tape. This was a 4 track London recording of Ansermet playing the Rite of Spring and Petrushka. When I got tired of one ballet, I had the other. This went on for several weeks until I could expand my library.
Tony Lauck
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