Reginald Foort plays the Wurlitzer Organ (1926)
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 Published On Mar 26, 2024

a) In a Persian Market (Ketelbey)
b) In a Monastery Garden (Ketelbey)
German 78 rpm record.
Electrola, recording 29 August 1926, London, New Gallery Cinema, George Walter Dillnutt (recordist), Harold Edward Davidson (recordist)
Reginald Foort, organ.
E.H. 24 / a) CR651 III, b) CR652 I / a) 09384, b) 09385

https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.ph...
"Reginald John Foort (23 January 1893 – 22 May 1980), FRCO, ARCM, was a cinema organist and theatre organist. He was the first official BBC Staff Theatre Organist from 1936 to 1938, during which time he made 405 broadcasts on the organ at St George's Hall, Langham Place. 'Reggie' was a hugely popular broadcaster in his heyday in the late 1930s and 1940s in Britain and later settled in the United States, where he similarly enjoyed an illustrious career performing and recording."

Information on the Wurlitzer Organ:
https://www.cinema-organs.org.uk/venu...
https://taylor-hammond.com/burberry-r...

-transferred from the original 78 rpm records at 78 rpm with a standard USB turntable (DJ Tech Vinyl USB 10 with Audio Technica AT-91 system) equipped with special needle ATN-78 (65µm). Turntable speed adjusted to correct pitch.
-analog RIAA compensation and equalisation with Behringer FBQ800: 63 Hz/-1 dB, 125 Hz/+1 dB, 250 Hz/+2 dB, 500 Hz/-3 dB, 1 kHz/0 dB, 2 kHz/+3 dB, 4 kHz/+7 dB, 8 kHz/+8 dB, 16 kHz/-7 dB
-digital mono conversion
-declicking/decrackling with ClickRepair (Wavelet, 100%, 100%, all)
-Audacity:
-48 db high pass filter below 20 Hz
( -digital pitch correction (not applied))
-normalisation to 0 dB
-Reaper EQ:
-Type Low Shelf, Freq. 422 Hz, Gain 3.7 dB, Bandwidth 0.01 oct
-Type Band, Freq. 1756 Hz, Gain -0.5 dB, Bandwidth 2.6 oct
-Type Band, Freq. 9598 Hz, Gain 9.5 dB, Bandwidth 2.0 oct
-Type Low Pass, Freq. 16308 Hz, Gain 0 dB, Bandwidth 2.0 oct
-Type High Pass, Freq. 51 Hz, Gain 0 dB, Bandwidth 1.5 oct
-Audacity:
-normalisation to 0 dB
Spatial enhancement (for unprocessed mono, please listen to left channel only):
-prepare 3 copies of the monaural track (1, 2, 3)
-1, 2, 3: normalise to -4 dB
-2: switch to left channel
-3: switch to right channel, add 10 ms silence to the beginning
-2,3 join as stereo track
-mix 1 (-9 dB) with (2,3) (+2 dB)
-adjust balance
-normalise result to 0 dB

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