The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #136569 Message #3121179
Posted By: Edthefolkie
25-Mar-11 - 08:33 AM
Thread Name: Medieval Spring
Subject: RE: Medieval Spring
Thanks for remining me about Martin Best, Suibhne!
I simply cannot understand why some people got snotty about his approach, since the whole Early Music thing is, to an extent, a late 20th Century construct (ducks to avoid hurled nakers).
I bought his "The Last of the Troubadours" and "The Dante Troubadours" on vinyl in about 1982, after a fantastic Provençal hol. For them as doesn't know, these albums are on the Nimbus label and play at 45 rpm. This wheeze was used to sort of get more bandwith into the grooves. It certainly worked - one would be enjoying Martin quietly playing the oudh or whatever, whereupon somebody would bash a big drum, we would spill our glasses of red and the cats would go into orbit. Surprisingly, the stylus would carry on tracking quite happily and me old Quad 405 merely sneered at the colossal power spike.
No wonder Nimbus seems to have gone the way of all flesh though......