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████ Ernst von Dohnßnyi-The Welte Mignon Myster █▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
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██ artist....: Ernst von Dohnßnyi ██
██ album.....: The Welte Mignon Mystery Vol. VI ██
██ label.....: TACET 145 ██
██ genre.....: Classical ██
██ type......: Soundtrack ██
██ album year: 2007 ██
██ rip date..: 03.31.2008 ██
██ streetdate: 00.00.0000 ██
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██ tracks....: 13 ██
██ size......: 95,4 MB ██
██ language..: English ██
██ bitrate...: avg.Kbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo ██
██ source....: CDDA ██
██ ripper/sup: me /me ██
██ grabb/enco: EAC /Lame 3.97 ██
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██ url.......: http://www.tacet.de/ ██
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██ The Tacet label is trying to make it clear that you?re not ██
██ going to have to suffer thru the sort of distortion and ██
██ scratch evidenced by the few early recordings of solo ██
██ classical piano music made around 1905. ██
██ "(...) The note booklet begins with a sidebar headed "This ██
██ is not an historical recording." Well, the Tacet label is ██
██ trying to make it clear that you?re not going to have to ██
██ suffer thru the sort of distortion and scratch evidenced by ██
██ the few early recordings of solo classical piano music made ██
██ around 1905. Actually, none of the famous pianists or ██
██ composers had recorded yet because some had tried it and ██
██ after hearing first hand how horrible it sounded, they said, ██
██ in effect, "Forget About It." ██
██ The invention in 1904 of the Rube Goldbergish Welte Mignon ██
██ recording system in Germany made it possible for discerning ██
██ artists to perform their music and then later (after ██
██ considerable processing) hear back an amazingly authentic ██
██ performance full of most of the subtleties of their playing, ██
██ and without noise or distortion. It was so excellent that ██
██ composers such as Richard Strauss, Debussy, Ravel and Mahler ██
██ recorded Welte rolls. The recording system was light years ██
██ beyond the typical player piano (invented around 1880) in ██
██ its design, and could be either built into pianos - which ██
██ was done by Steinway and others - or the rolls could be ██
██ played back on a "Vorsetzer" - a robot-like device with 88 ██
██ "fingers" which rolled up to any piano?s keyboard and struck ██
██ the individual keys just as a live pianist would do. The ██
██ latter ability is what has been harnessed by a number of ██
██ different record labels over the years: a restored Vorsetzer ██
██ was rolled up to a Steinway grand and the latest recording ██
██ equipment would then preserve the performance by the phantom ██
██ pianist in stereo for release on LP, tape or now CD. Some of ██
██ those original efforts suffered from less than perfect ██
██ adjustment of the complex and aged Welte Mignon mechanisms. ██
██ There were many associated noises of the mechanical wheels ██
██ and levers, you could hear the wheezing of the pneumatic ██
██ pumps that were involved, and sometimes the music took on a ██
██ very mechanical delivery not that much better than the ██
██ typical player piano. Telarc Records got around these ██
██ mechanical problems in their Rachmaninoff CD series by ██
██ transferring everything on the composer?s piano rolls (which ██
██ were Duo-Art, not Welte) to computer files, for astoundingly ██
██ realistic playback. Tacet has elected to stay with the ██
██ actual Welte Mignon equipment, but tweaked to the enth ██
██ degree by a Stuttgart technician, Hans W. ██
██ Schmitz,