anantheeswaran.a
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am having so very less collections of HMV GP(hand Wind),national tape recorder, a Philips Battery free radio and GEC 5Valve HT90V LT1.5V
Rare gramophones-radiograms-records
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ANILKUMAR
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Dear Anantheeswaran.a,
Thanks for sharing.Sure,you enjoy having them.
It is not, how many items you have matters. rather, even if it is just one item and if you cherish and proud of having it; that's what matters.
Collected yesterday ( a search/hunt of many years, got fulfilled yesterday)
Kaveri -Malayalam LP
Music : Illayaraja and V.Dhakshinaoorthy
antoniodias
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antoniodias
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Wow brother that is a plethora of TT collections. Hope to see pictures of your TTS soon.Thanks for sharing
ANILKUMAR
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Thank you brother Antoniodias, That post was from 2012, I hope. few of the gears in the list above has been either sold or moved out due to difficulties w.r.t stacking them and ofcourse the maintenance.
The place where I am staying now has only a few items: A Sony PS-Q7,BSR and Marantz TT, A NAD Amplifier , a SONY Spool Tape Drive and a Grundig Radiogram from earliy 50s.
Anyway I have few youtube videos and some images made long back with few of the remaining items. Just sharing the links.
Videos: (kindly bear the poor quality, as these videos were made long back with an old camcorder)
Technics suv 10X + Boston SPEAKER + Lenco TT-PLAYING Gershon Kingsley's 1969 "popcorn song"
images:
AKAI AP-M7 Linier Tracking TT : https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtZ7AqlAf3p5n1y1RWo5IrpXyqmx?e=G3qvKd
Lenco TT : https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtZ7AqlAf3p5n1LAupyrO7bQmLrZ?e=LZDoab
SOTA Sapphire TurnTable : https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtZ7AqlAf3p5n1F5OfHQQjLcL4Sn?e=HuaAMc
Nakamichi_600_cassette_deck : https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtZ7AqlAf3p5n1SOf9g1yjxdYwYX?e=almDBT
AKAI 4000 DS MK-ii Spool Tape Drive : https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtZ7AqlAf3p5n1WQDj7u6DPN9XPJ?e=WotkZf
Dual CS627-ULM-TT : https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtZ7AqlAf3p5n10ZPz_TXIJHF80r?e=JADxcn
Setup 2: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cloud-b-lab-co.in/setup2.jpg
Setup-1 https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cloud-b-lab-co.in/setup1.jpg
The place where I stay now has the following items:
1952 UK made Grundig Radio Gram with AM/FM Band ,4 Tone settings and manual sound equalizer : https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtZ7AqlAf3p5n0WgFB5l5KFTzhdN?e=1UL9L7
SONY Spool Tape Drive: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtZ7AqlAf3p5n1j9BjXjItLhges6?e=7ce4sN
Marantz TT : https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtZ7AqlAf3p5n09nHmTs9rrzidrj?e=mE3azm
SONY PS-Q7: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtZ7AqlAf3p5n1lc8et3UFsUMj21?e=zvqMxH
LP/EP/78 Storage :https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtZ7AqlAf3p5n1ev5SDb7XUYE566?e=ApIYUu
BSR 3 speed changer : https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtZ7AqlAf3p5n1uVZhCR-YW8wBPh?e=mTNAvF
overall: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtZ7AqlAf3p5n0w_WSvlIib4pXch?e=LTMWGr
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ANILKUMAR
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HMV Newletter "The voice" from 1961 : Kaalmrigaya | Tagore's Musical Drama. Kinldy look at the highlighted one in "Red box".
and the 78 RPM Album released was the following one.(kal mrigaya - An Opera By Tagore, Tagore Centenary 1961. P11952-P11955 (4 discs))
and the 78 RPM Album released was the following one.(kal mrigaya - An Opera By Tagore, Tagore Centenary 1961. P11952-P11955 (4 discs))
Bhaskar Jyoti Talapatra
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I don't know which word will be the best to praise you. What you have shared here is simply mind blowing. You have opened an important page of history. The HMV did have a good relationship with Kolkata. In Dumdum stable of the HMV many treasures were born during the hay day of record player. The newsletter that you have given here reveals the two revered Bengali singers, Tarun Banerjee and Konika Banerjee whom we , the people of Bengal admire .The recording of Tagore's masterpiece Kaalmrigaya at the Dumdum studio of HMV ..,.. just spell binding.kudos to your endeavour to present a glimpse of history.
Regards
Regards
ANILKUMAR
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Few other Bengali 78 RPm Record Albums I do have. . This was later released in LP Form (EALP 1257)
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ANILKUMAR
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Can anyone help me with details of following White Label record.
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ANILKUMAR
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Another one from the histrory. The event of "First Electrical recording" at HMV Dum Dum Studios, Calcutta.
It was the year 1926, and HMV India, was inaugurating its first electrical recording system in the Calcutta studio, then located in Beliaghata.
Rabindranath Tagore was sent a special invitation for officially inaugurating the new system and giving the company the opportunity to record his voice. The bard, accompanied by the eminent statistician, P. C. Mahalanobis (with whom he shared a lifelong relationship of admiration, love and respect, despite the difference in age) went to the Beliaghata studio to grace the ocassion. What happened next, is to be read in the words of the then young, and yet to be eminent lyricst and director, Hiren Bose, who was an eye-witness.
Thanks to https://learningandcreativity.com/rabindranath-tagore-and-indias-first-electrical-recording/
Rabindranath Tagore with P. C. Mahalanobis and Nirmalkumari Mahalanobis (Pic: Sounak Gupta)
It was the year 1926, and HMV India, was inaugurating its first electrical recording system in the Calcutta studio, then located in Beliaghata.
Rabindranath Tagore was sent a special invitation for officially inaugurating the new system and giving the company the opportunity to record his voice. The bard, accompanied by the eminent statistician, P. C. Mahalanobis (with whom he shared a lifelong relationship of admiration, love and respect, despite the difference in age) went to the Beliaghata studio to grace the ocassion. What happened next, is to be read in the words of the then young, and yet to be eminent lyricst and director, Hiren Bose, who was an eye-witness.
Thanks to https://learningandcreativity.com/rabindranath-tagore-and-indias-first-electrical-recording/
Rabindranath Tagore with P. C. Mahalanobis and Nirmalkumari Mahalanobis (Pic: Sounak Gupta)
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Bhaskar Jyoti Talapatra
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Read about this historical even in a Bengali newspaper. The much coveted recording couldn't be done on the very first day due to some technical glitches. It was done later.
bhaskarcan
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Hi Anil,
These white label, single sided records were mostly approval seeking records. They were sent to the authority who finally used to give green signal after scrutiny.
In case of Tagore songs, these records used to be sent for final approval from Viswa Bharati.
After checking the final product the label itself used to get a "APPROVED" stamp with signature of the approver and date.
In case of a rejection, there used to be "CANCELLED" stamp on the white label.
I have few of those approved /cancelled records.
The nice thing about these records,(as many as I have seen) is the hand written notes by fountain pen on the label.
Regards
bhaskarcan
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In 1932 Rabindranath also recorded the first recording for Hindusthan Records. That was the first 78 rpm record on their label. The record was numbered as H1.
The record H2 was of another noted Bengali Poet/song writer Sri Atul Prasad Sen's own voice.
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ANILKUMAR
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Dear Bhaskar,
Thanks a lot. I am very much aware of white label records as I have a few of them and even did a small research to find out the root etc. Few of the white label records do have songs which were never released officially. May be rejected or other reasons...
Now, from this given record, what I need to understand is the writing on that record. From Serial no. HSB,assume it was a Hindustan Records product. But can you please translate the other hand-written portion on it , which I could not read properly.
Regards,
Anil.
Bhaskar Jyoti Talapatra
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Hello Anilji
If we translate হে উদাসী into English, it will mean O sad one. The poet perhaps addresses some one who has become sad due to some reasons. There is another Bengali word মিনি(Mini) ,which I guess is the name of a girl Mini. You must have read Tagore's Kabuliwala where the Kabuliwala had a friendly relationship with a girl named Mini. However, in past many bengalees named their daughters as Mini. Though I can't relate the sentence written on that demo record with another word Mini which was also written there, I guess this was a Tagore song which was perhaps sent for approval of the Visva Bharati as FM Bhaskarcan has already mentioned. However, this could also be a song penned by another well known bard of Bengal Sri Dwijendralal Roy.
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ANILKUMAR
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Thanks a lot Bhaskar Ji.
ANILKUMAR
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I was searching through my old repository and found again another glimpse from the history...
ANILKUMAR
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Another glimpse from history:
Lakshminarayana Subramaniam (born 23 July 1947) is an Indian violinist, composer and conductor, trained in the classical Carnatic music tradition and Western classical music, and renowned for his virtuoso playing techniques and compositions in orchestral fusion.
His uncles include Ramnad Raghavan and Ramnad Krishnan.
His brothers are also acclaimed musicians, and include the violinist-composers L. Shankar (alias. Shenkar), and the late L. Vaidyanathan.
Since 1973, Subramaniam has amassed over 200 recordings to his credit, releasing several solo albums, recording collaborations with musicians Yehudi Menuhin, Stéphane Grappelli, Ruggiero Ricci and Jean-Pierre Rampal, further to making albums and performing with Ruggiero Ricci, Herbie Hancock, Joe Sample, Jean-Luc Ponty, Stanley Clarke John Handy, George Harrison and several others.
A prodigy -from childhood. A small proof
Also in blue box : How cute it is to see Rafi Saab singing during a live recording....
Lakshminarayana Subramaniam (born 23 July 1947) is an Indian violinist, composer and conductor, trained in the classical Carnatic music tradition and Western classical music, and renowned for his virtuoso playing techniques and compositions in orchestral fusion.
His uncles include Ramnad Raghavan and Ramnad Krishnan.
His brothers are also acclaimed musicians, and include the violinist-composers L. Shankar (alias. Shenkar), and the late L. Vaidyanathan.
Since 1973, Subramaniam has amassed over 200 recordings to his credit, releasing several solo albums, recording collaborations with musicians Yehudi Menuhin, Stéphane Grappelli, Ruggiero Ricci and Jean-Pierre Rampal, further to making albums and performing with Ruggiero Ricci, Herbie Hancock, Joe Sample, Jean-Luc Ponty, Stanley Clarke John Handy, George Harrison and several others.
A prodigy -from childhood. A small proof
Also in blue box : How cute it is to see Rafi Saab singing during a live recording....
skroderider
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Thank you for sharing this. I don't listen to much Carnatic classical but I always found L. Subramaniam's violin recitals to be brilliant. Through some of his recordings I got introduced to other greats too - like Palghat Mani Iyer (mridangam) in albums where they collaborated. Amazon Music and Spotify both have some good albums.
L. Subramaniam also featured in a decades old album called Meri Jaan Hindustan which had performances by various Indian artistes including Chitra, Remo and Hariharan - that was my first introduction to the maestro when I heard it on cassette as a kid.
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