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MAGAZINE FOR MUSIC LISTENERS
This Issue.
In the many months since last
vve carried an article by G. A. Briggs,
Yorkshire's contribution to the art of loudspeaker
making and mounting, we have
had many, many letters from readers asking
for more. This we cannot give them, just
now. However, we can offer the next best
thing, which is an article about Mr. Briggs
-and one which will serve to explain,
too, why he has no time currently for literary
endeavors. He is too busy preparing
and presenting lecture- demonstrations, in
which high quality sound reproducing
equipment is pitted against live performers
in concert halls. The latest of these .
covered by Robert Marsh on page 31, took
place in May at London's new Festival Hall.
The Briggs show sold it out (or very
nearly) twice in rapid succession. Come to
think of it, we can offer, or at least suggest,
to Briggs -admirers, something as good or
better than a Briggs article-i.e., Briggs,
in person. He has arranged to hire Town
Hall, in New York City, twice in October,
during Audio Fair time, for demonstrations
like those in Festival Hall. Enough said?
Ah, to be in Bayreuth, now that Wagner's
there, to hear Siegfried's horn sound in
the world's only horn -loaded auditorium.
However, the town couldn't hold us all, so
perhaps it is well that some of us are constrained
by circumstances to haunts nearer
home. And you can acquire some topnotch
Wainer lore here, too. In fact, all you
need do is page through the record section
till you come to -Tames Hinton, Jr.'s fascinating
discography of Wagner's later works.
CHARLES FOWLER, Publisher
JOHN M. CONEY, Editor
ROY H. HOOPES, JR., Managing Editor
Associate Editors
ROY F. ALLISON FRANK R. WRIGHT
Rol, LINDSTROM, Art Director
Editorial Assistants
ì riam D. Manning, Cora R. Hoopes
ROLAND GELATT, Neu' York Editor
Contributing Editors
C. G. BURKE
JAMES HINTON, JR.
ROBERT CHARLES MARSH
MANSFIELD E. PICKETT, Director of
Advertising Sales
WARREN B. SYER. Business Manager
CHRISTINE KORTE, Circulation Manager
Branch Offices (Advertising only): New York:
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Volume 5 Number 6
Noted with Interest
AUTHORitatively Speaking
Swap -a- Record
Letters
As the Editors See It
August 1955
Music's Great Dane, by Kurt Stone 28
An appreciation of Carl Nielsen, with discographic overtones.
Yorkshireman in Festival Hall, by R. C. Marsh
An on -the -spot account of a G. A. Briggs concert- scaled audio
demonstration.
The Science of Music in Ancient China, by F. A. Kuttner 32
When an acoustical engineering experiment might easily last
five centuries!
Creeping Distortion and What To Do About It,
by Irving M. Fried
First aid for shrieks, hums, whistles -and sudden silences.
No One's Going To Emancipate Me, by Christopher Faye
Sage suggestions by an unreconstructed audiophile.
Music Makers, by Roland Gelatt
Record Section
Records in Review; Dialing your Disks; Building your Record
Library; Wagner on Microgroove, Part II, by James Hinton, Jr.
Tested in the Home
Webster 97 -o Preamp and 97 -to Amplifier; CBC Voltage Regulators;
Wilcox -Gay 41: lo Recorder; EdiTall Jr. Tape Splicer; GE
Record Compensator /Filter; Rauland Golden Gate Tuner;
Snyder 5 -D Indoor Antenna; Argos AD Speaker Enclosures;
Fairchild 220 Cartridge; Mohawk Midgetape.
The Listener's Bookshelf, by R. D. Darrell
Professional Directory
Traders' Marketplace
Advertising Index
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