tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890840604465360033.post6018653937976259597..comments2024-03-11T17:46:10.889-05:00Comments on Flat, Black, and Classical: Indian Classical Music on Vinyl and Cassette: Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha Khan, live in Paris 1977-01-28 (FM broadcast, mono)Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13852927085614143833noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890840604465360033.post-21930773558235632792021-06-17T22:17:26.571-05:002021-06-17T22:17:26.571-05:00I As there. Thanks for sharing.I As there. Thanks for sharing.Les Wagenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00631963408777429067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890840604465360033.post-25331474302771037022018-02-01T11:19:13.804-06:002018-02-01T11:19:13.804-06:00I am discovering your blog. It's fantastic. Th...I am discovering your blog. It's fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing your passion and make us discovering such treasures.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890840604465360033.post-90316900726201556932018-02-01T11:18:01.542-06:002018-02-01T11:18:01.542-06:00I am discovering your blog. It's fantastic. Th...I am discovering your blog. It's fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing your passion and make us discovering such treasures.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890840604465360033.post-21117005325944215852017-03-16T10:40:40.780-05:002017-03-16T10:40:40.780-05:00Yours is completely a labour of love and it shows ...Yours is completely a labour of love and it shows in what you do. Thank you very much for the music that you post. RensManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06954821847971803780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890840604465360033.post-7403126110160237872017-02-27T03:33:28.255-06:002017-02-27T03:33:28.255-06:00Jonathon, music has never let me down the way peop...Jonathon, music has never let me down the way people have. Even in historic times which we would consider unthinkable, great music has been made. That is the thin string of hope I am holding onto right now.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13852927085614143833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890840604465360033.post-31567909295610943452017-02-27T03:30:36.213-06:002017-02-27T03:30:36.213-06:00There are maybe a bit over 100 LPs and 50 cassette...There are maybe a bit over 100 LPs and 50 cassettes in my home office awaiting transferring. Very soon there will be a lovely LP from 1980 featuring Ustad Vilayat Khan and Zakir Hussain. After that there will be two commercially released cassettes by Ravi Shankar which are quite rare -- I have never seen copies and I had to work from digital files made by someone else. Then there is a stack of LPs which my friend Nels has generously lent me in order to transfer. Then... well, you get the picture.<br /><br />Many more instrumental and a few vocal LPs and cassettes are on their way.<br /><br />Tabla solo records on LP or cassette are few and far between. I posted a lovely double-cassette by Anindo Chatterjee last year but had to remove it when I found out it was still in print as a CD. My sincere suggestion to you is to watch the many tabla solo recordings on youtube, which is beginning to become the premiere source of hard-to-find music. 10 years ago I would have said that place was your local used record shop; 5 years ago I would have said blogs such as this one were the place. Now, it is youtube. People are uploading amazing material every day. There is one fellow who is uploading recordings his father made back in the 1960s of classical concerts in India. There is one gentleman who would video tape house concerts in the 1980s and 90s and is slowly releasing them on his account. There are a dozen other accounts on youtube i could tell you about. If you have the time to properly search, you can find things that will never be available in any other form. <br /><br />Maybe once a week I should round up a selection of youtube videos which are particularly noteworthy. (and don't forget there are excellent "youtube downloaders" which are apps that capture either the whole video or just the audio portion from youtube videos. The one I use is called "iTubeDownloader" but there are many more out there)Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13852927085614143833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890840604465360033.post-89313051150254511942017-02-27T03:05:52.731-06:002017-02-27T03:05:52.731-06:00Bill, you are absolutely correct. The problem is t...Bill, you are absolutely correct. The problem is that when one has 20-25 TB of files and increasing all the time. That is a lot of little drives! I will think about data archiving as much as I can this coming year. For now, I am spreading my digital files as far and wide as possible (with this blog, for example!).Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13852927085614143833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890840604465360033.post-21877471719344011382017-02-27T03:04:34.379-06:002017-02-27T03:04:34.379-06:00Thanks for correction of FLAC & MP3 file. i wa...Thanks for correction of FLAC & MP3 file. i want more on instrumental, Tabla solo & Vocal LP if possible please.<br />Music is Life & Life is Music.<br /><br />Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890840604465360033.post-65149519373871924342017-02-27T02:59:38.299-06:002017-02-27T02:59:38.299-06:00Dear Tawfiq: Yes, you are absolutely correct about...Dear Tawfiq: Yes, you are absolutely correct about this. I have switched them and they are correct now. Hope you are doing well!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13852927085614143833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890840604465360033.post-49485853861849594602017-02-27T02:34:19.228-06:002017-02-27T02:34:19.228-06:00Dear Richard, it looks like the flac files are und...Dear Richard, it looks like the flac files are under 320kbps mp3 mono (158.5 mB) and the mp3 under 16bit 44.1kHz FLAC mono (280.9 mB).Tawfiqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00332824027946814674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890840604465360033.post-67244978578466293752017-02-26T17:58:36.152-06:002017-02-26T17:58:36.152-06:00It sucks when drives go bad. Good luck with the tr...It sucks when drives go bad. Good luck with the transfer, and thanks for this audio, solace in dark times.Jonathan F. Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12876169521766892619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890840604465360033.post-8970912271583189292017-02-26T10:39:58.854-06:002017-02-26T10:39:58.854-06:00Glad you're back! Better to buy more than one...Glad you're back! Better to buy more than one smaller drive than to "put all your eggs" on one large drive that could fail and not be retrievable. Just a thought...Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07908722516316781913noreply@blogger.com