Adrian: your Queen Victoria rescue

[Don Pearce[_3_]]

Adrian, I heard your reconstruction of that wax cylinder of Queen
Victoria's voice the other day - I believe you used Cedar to do the
job. Just how bad was it before you started?

[Adrian Tuddenham[_2_]]

Don Pearce > wrote:

> Adrian, I heard your reconstruction of that wax cylinder of Queen
> Victoria's voice the other day - I believe you used Cedar to do the
> job. Just how bad was it before you started?

I'm sorry to say that I didn't do that job, it was Peter Copeland at the
National Sound Archive. You can hear a few words of his voice in the
sequence where the curator at the Science Museum plays the recording to
Steve Punt for the first time (Steve Punt comments "That's not Queen
Victoria").

At the time the first dubbing was done, Cedar was cutting-edge
technology and was only available by sending the recordings to the Cedar
people and waiting for the return of a procesed copy. Peter mentions
that he has just received the results back from Cedar.

I did provide the dubbings of the acoustic recordings of King George V
and Queen Mary which they used in the montage at the beginning of the
programme - and, of course, a few words near the end.


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[Don Pearce[_3_]]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 18:47:56 +0000,
(Adrian Tuddenham) wrote:

>Don Pearce > wrote:
>
>> Adrian, I heard your reconstruction of that wax cylinder of Queen
>> Victoria's voice the other day - I believe you used Cedar to do the
>> job. Just how bad was it before you started?
>
>I'm sorry to say that I didn't do that job, it was Peter Copeland at the
>National Sound Archive. You can hear a few words of his voice in the
>sequence where the curator at the Science Museum plays the recording to
>Steve Punt for the first time (Steve Punt comments "That's not Queen
>Victoria").
>
>At the time the first dubbing was done, Cedar was cutting-edge
>technology and was only available by sending the recordings to the Cedar
>people and waiting for the return of a procesed copy. Peter mentions
>that he has just received the results back from Cedar.
>
>I did provide the dubbings of the acoustic recordings of King George V
>and Queen Mary which they used in the montage at the beginning of the
>programme - and, of course, a few words near the end.

Ah, I should have been listening more closely - sorry about that.

d