Was Robert Johnson recorded at the wrong speed?

Subject: RE: Was Robert Johnson recorded at the wrong speed?
From: mayomick
Date: 12 Dec 10 - 03:13 PM

Guest Eric wrote in June that Lockwood played RJ's songs at a slower speed to the recordings .Maybe he did hear the difference but didn't mention it .

Subject: RE: Was Robert Johnson recorded at the wrong speed?
From: GUEST,GUEST,sgs
Date: 12 Dec 10 - 04:17 PM

recently, a restoration engineer in france (ex-bbc) claims to have found a ca. 60Hz hum on RJ recordings, calibrated to 60Hz, and produced some nice remastering using izotope, waves, aa, and harbal sw.

no appreciable differences.

http://www.pristineclassical.com

Subject: RE: Was Robert Johnson recorded at the wrong speed?
From: GUEST,sgs
Date: 12 Dec 10 - 04:37 PM

the story about frankie's blues is "folk processed" and has mjh having fun at dvr's expense. mjh's "frankie and albert" from the anthology mystified the nyc folkie guitar mafia until stefan grossman (or rory block?) figured out it was in open G tuning, and fairly straightforward.

Subject: RE: Was Robert Johnson recorded at the wrong speed?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Dec 10 - 06:28 PM

Back in the old days of windup gramophones, and electric turntables too, the machines had a little speed control so people could adjust the speed to what sounded right to them. I imagine that would have been what Robert Lockwood, Jr might have been doing.