Sold Date: November 14, 2024
Start Date: November 4, 2024
Final Price: £25.00 (GBP)
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THE CHOIR OF BRISTOL CATHEDRAL: Music At Bristol Cathedral (Gosport Sound Products, GSP 90151, 1972, LP)
Clifford Harker is in charge of the proceedings.
This is a late LP from the Bristol-based GSP label (despite the label name, it was never based in Gosport - that was where the owner, BBC sound recordist, Peter Copeland, came from). I don't think I have come across any further GSP records after 1972.
Copeland, meanwhile, had a very interesting and worthwhile life and Wikipedia more or less gets it right:
"As BBC Bristol was the home of the Natural History Unit, he developed an interest in making birdsong and wildlife recordings: he once paid for a holiday in Australia by recording wildlife atmospheres during it and selling them to the BBC Sound Archive.[c]
"In 1986 he left the BBC and took up the post of Conservation Manager and later become the Head of Sound Conservation at the National Sound Archive (now part of the British Library) which essentially performs much the same functions for sound recordings as the Library does for books and other publications. He was instrumental in effecting the move to digital archiving[d] using the new techniques which were becoming available: he also did extensive research into the highly specialised and complex area of accurate reproduction of old recordings.
"He retired from the NSA (by then called the British Library Sound Archive) in 2002 on reaching the age of 60, but continued to act as a consultant until his death from a diabetes-related heart attack on 30 July 2006. He was still working on a Manual of Analogue Sound Restoration Techniques – a mammoth opus with sections on conversion to digital formats, noise reduction, correct methods of playing and equalizing 78 RPM and other old recordings: the British Library has published this manual electronically on its website.[2] His huge collection of rare and unusual gramophone records and other sound recordings has been donated to the British Library Sound Archive."
The sleeve is VG and the record plays at VG to EX. Effectively, mostly nice but with some occasional light background, but not that obtrusive; it would digitise exceptionally well with minimal use of declicking software - and a better wash than I've given it (squeegee and tap water, my effort) might produce a near perfect LP. Rare as buggery, though, so still a hefty price tag, whatever. If you know what it is, you know how rare it is!
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