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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Silly Questions

From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com>
Date: 2008-03-06

No, I meant that the violins don't end together on all
notes, that is that at the end of some notes it sounds
like that only one violin is playing, at least on
m-tron.

Mark
--- jonesalley <jonesalley@cox.net> wrote:

> I would imagine with that being a single-mic bedroom
> recording (if the apocryphal tale is true) that the
> note durations were counted off by Harry giving hand
> signals to the three ladies, as the click of a
> stopwatch would have been noticeable. It's actually
> kind of surprising that the note lengths are as
> close as they are. Have you ever timed the master
> note lengths and seen what kind of variation exists?
>
>
> Each recording is not a precise 8 second take
> so some stop early and some go on longer.



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