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<br><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">Way back in the archives of this List, Mary Jo Watts engages in a small discussion with Howard Scott who contacted</font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">F Minor with the help of his wife (if I remember correctly). </font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">Karl, Mary Jo - can you please zero in on the dates of </font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">said "discussion"?</font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">Mary</font><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: bobmerk@earthlink.net<br>To: f_minor@glenngould.org<br>Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 03:22:05 -0400<br>Subject: Re: [f_minor] Howard Scott dies age 92<br><br>
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<div><font face="Courier New"><strong>Not the slightest wish to detract
from the work of Howard Scott, but most credit for the</strong> <strong>creation
of the 33 1/3 rpm LP (Long-Playing) vinyl analog record goes to the
Hungarian-born USA engineer and engineering executive for Columbia,
</strong><strong>Peter Carl Goldmark (1906-1977). </strong></font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New"><strong>Legend has it friends invited him to their
NYC apartment to listen to a new recording of a classical symphony, and the loud
and intrusive mechanical interruptions of the changing of the 78 rpm discs at
"wrong" moments of the symphony drove Goldmark nuts. The next morning he
assembled his engineering team at Columbia and told them they were going to
invent a new format with huge improvements in music fidelity and length of play
per side.</strong></font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New"><strong>Goldmark was killed in a car accident and
didn't live to hear SONY's digital CD format (its length chosen to fit
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Ode to Joy, a piece of Western music beloved
by Japanese fans).</strong></font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New"><strong>A cult of Vinyl Analog True Believers
still exists, convinced that all digital music formats are a degenerate
corruption of musical fidelity, an assault on the human music-loving ear. The
Vinyl Audio Cult is strong enough to keep the manufacture of high-end audiophile
vinyl LPs (and high-end turntables) in business today.</strong></font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New"><strong>Where you find Vinyl Analog Cultists, you
will also find Vacuum Tube/Valve audiophile stereo equipment cultists, who
believe music reproduced through solid-state electronics severely damages and
reduces the reproduction of musical harmonic tones. (The vacuum tubes for
audiophile equipment are manufactured either in Russia or the Peoples Republic
of China -- a legacy of their Cold War low-tek.)</strong></font></div>
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<div><font face="Courier New"><strong>One common critique of these expensive
music reproduction obsessives is that they can prove they are scientifically and
acoustically correct: Analog vinyl music amplified through vacuum tube equipment
reproduces music in far superior fidelity -- but you have to be a German
shepherd or Chihuahua to perceive the superior quality of the
music.</strong></font></div>
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<div><strong><font face="Courier New">Bob</font></strong></div>
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<div style="font:10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div>
<div style="font:10pt arial;background:#e4e4e4;font-color:black"><b>From:</b>
<a title="rubatoatm@gmail.com" href="mailto:rubatoatm@gmail.com">Anita
Monroe</a> </div>
<div style="font:10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="f_minor@glenngould.org" href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org">Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn
Gould.</a> </div>
<div style="font:10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 07, 2012 8:50
PM</div>
<div style="font:10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [f_minor] Howard Scott dies
age 92</div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font><font face="Arial" size="2"></font><br></div>Hi Pat,
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<div>In this country not many people pay attention to classical music. A
very tiny few. And nobody knows any birthdays or dates of death of ANY of
them. A few people know about GG, but they know little about him.
It just can't be helped. Time marches on.</div>
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<div>Fond regards,</div>
<div>Anita<br><br>
<div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Pat <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pzumst@bluewin.ch">pzumst@bluewin.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Indeed, thanks to David Pelletier</div>
<div><a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/arts/music/howard-h-scott-a-developer-of-the-lp-dies-at-92.html?_r=0" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/arts/music/howard-h-scott-a-developer-of-the-lp-dies-at-92.html?_r=0" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/arts/music/howard-h-scott-a-developer-of-the-lp-dies-at-92.html?_r=0</a></div>
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<div>( OT: Please note that there is at least one mistake in this article.
The first CD was introduced in October 1982 and not 1978 as the article
claims. What’s it with journalistic standards these days ? Does Research
equal Copy/Paste nowdays ? And that with the NYT ! )</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="promonde@aol.com" href="mailto:promonde@aol.com">David Pelletier</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 07, 2012 8:11 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="f_minor@glenngould.org" href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org">Discussion of the
Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.</a> </div>
<div><b>Cc:</b> <a title="f_minor@glenngould.org" href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org">Discussion of the
Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [f_minor] GG on DRS2, german radio
feature</div></div></div>
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<div>Howard Scott died yesterday <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div>
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