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The Antique Phonograph Program

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"The Antique Phonograph Music Program"

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Original transmission date: 05/20 2014

(Guest Ron Hutchinson of the Vitaphone Project)

Another chance to hear WFMU's "The Antique Phonograph Program" with host Mac & his special in-studio guest fellow record-collector Ron Hutchinson, founder of The Vitaphone Project.

"The Antique Phonograph Music Program" format is unique in that 78 RPM records are usually played on antique acoustic "steel-needle" phonographs directly "over-the-air", giving the listener the authentic audiological antique sound of the period record players from the early 20th Century. Mac has infectious zeal & energy for the music of the era.

For this 2014 episode, Guest Ron Hutchinson explains how The Vitaphone Project was founded & it's aims at restoring 16-inch records of lost vintage soundtracks with their visual 1920s film elements.

Ron also shares some favorites from his collection & a couple of Vitaphone tracks that are all electrically transferred... In other words, no steel needles (or acoustic machines) were used in the playing of these gems & the listener experience can benefit from the full range of sound that the early "orthophonic" fidelity can offer.

This episode is presented as a remembrance to Ron Hutchinson who left us all rather unexpectedly, on 02/02/2019.

For this special "one-off" episode, I made the recording as it went out "live", the only editing performed was the removal of studio surface noises & pauses being shortened to improve the…

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  1. ( Guest Ron Hutchinson)

    · 54 min

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