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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>One of the things I love most about the GG
community are the periodic outbreaks of hostility and ferocity between the
Hummists and the Antihummists. And this won't be the first time the war was
re-triggered by just such a re-mastering, or rumor of such a re-mastering, with
the humming digitally removed or suppressed.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>The whole kerfuffle says nothing about GG or music.
It's rather a poll or census of a tiny, trivial aspect of the personality of
each GG fan.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Okay, I'll come out of the closet: I'm a
Hummist. The Antihummists and Hum Suppressors are jerks.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Thomas Stockham is credited with first digitizing
recorded sound/music. His Soundstream process premiered with a reissue of
the 1906 (?) Caruso recordings (<FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"> <I>Caruso -
A Legendary Performer</I>, RCA 1976</FONT>.) Analysis of this new way of storing
sound showed that most of the unwanted noises weren't from the abuse of
decades of time on the grooves pressed into Bakelite cylinders. They were
instead chiefly from the primitive giant sound-collection horn into which Caruso
and the orchestra had to shout their voices and instruments. These effects
could be described fairly precisely numerically, and then mathematically
deleted. Comparing RCA's previous (33 1/3 vinyl) release with the Stockham
Soundstream vinyl release is startling.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>So can we hose up the Hum? Sure.<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Should we? Can </FONT><FONT size=4
face=Arial>removing something GG intentionally left possibily improve what
GG left? Is there a quote or citation that suggests GG had wished to have that
annoying humming suppressed or removed?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>The kerfuffle raises another issue. Does the legal
owner of a body of recorded music have the absolute and unlimited right to
re-shape it as he/she/it wishes? A disco percussion track to GG might be a
treat. Does anything stronger than hurt fan feelings exist to keep the
owner from distorting the music from GG's original recorded
state?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Bob</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>Massachusetts USA</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face=Arial>P.S. & OT: I just saw and heard a BBC segment
on UK's Aurora Orchestra. Just one aspect of their philosophy and performance
grabbed my attention: The instrumentalists and conductor perform without music
scores. Every note they play is in the memories of the musicians. From what I
saw and heard, Aurora certainly deserves our attention and a New Thing Under The
Sun award.</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=tlcdma2004@gmail.com href="mailto:tlcdma2004@gmail.com">Tony
Cimino</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> Friday, April 01, 2016 10:44
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [f_minor] Glenn Gould
Unhummed</DIV>
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<DIV>First I have heard. </DIV>
<DIV id=AppleMailSignature>I love his humming. T<BR><BR>Sent from my
iPhone</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><BR>On Apr
1, 2016, at 3:45 PM, Pat <<A
href="mailto:pzumst@bluewin.ch">pzumst@bluewin.ch</A>> wrote:<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Hey everyone</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Did anyone hear about this rumoured project by Sony
Classical that they are planning to re-release some GG material without the
humming and singing ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I forgot where the original source is but from memory they
are using some nifty software similar to what AutoTune or Melodyne can do –
find the singnal of the humming/singing in the mix or master tapes and then
reduce or remove these “artifacts” digitally. I reckon some people (not me)
would find that rejoycing.....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Can anyone confirm that ?</FONT></DIV>
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