78 rpm Leroy Anderson - Typewriter (Played on a Garrard 4HF)

This is a funny 78 rpm record of Leroy Anderson,and it's made in 1950 on the famous Decca Label.

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[SakaiXYuji]

LEEEERRRRROOOY!!

[FastDashEight]

This video inspired me to put an application on my computer that makes the keys sound like a typewriter everytime I type!

[HamtaroEL]

@sneskid: This is not quite correct, ALL analog records use equalization. Look up on Wikipedia on RIAA equalization. They said that 'before 1940's there were over 100 equalization used.'

[sneskid]

@HamtaroEL

ELECTRONIC recordings that were made before the RIAA curve became standard in the mid-1950s, were all done differently, like you said. There were MANY different curves in use, and they all varied by the record label as well as the year that the record was pressed! Just about all of them are very different from the RIAA curve we have been using since the mid-1950s. This is why a 78rpm played through a modern preamp, tends to sound a bit "muffled", and will often have too much bass.

[sneskid]

@HamtaroEL

Agreed - there might be a rare exception here and there, but just about the only ones that are actually meant to be played flat (and by flat, I mean NO EQ correction during playback - not even with the RIAA preamp that's included in modern-day receivers), are the pre-1925 ACOUSTIC recordings. When electronic recording was started, EQing was used to get around limitations. It MUST be compensated for during playback, or else it won't sound "accurate".

[HamtaroEL]

@TheOldCrankyWorkshop: As I told dgr8zod, all records have EQ. They are recorded very different. go to wikipedia. sorry for bringing up an old subject.

[DrPepper9961]

This on Captain Kangaroo show made me want to "play" the typewriter and have been typing now for 55 years or so!

[acla9000]

@zhveer Yep!! Very charming.

[vlengoc]

@StigGT2 Me :D