Music & Arts' Stokowski Conducts Tchaikovsky and Avshalomov experimental stereo recordings from 1952 is precisely the sort of thing historical recording buffs don't ever expect to see. Historically, stereo sound doesn't officially appear as a public medium until 1958, but as early as 1930 inventors at EMI in Germany and at Bell Labs were trying to find a way to get more of a three-dimensional sound out of recordings. Leopold Stokowski was a frequent flyer at Bell Labs during this time, utilizing his expert ears and world ...
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Music & Arts' Stokowski Conducts Tchaikovsky and Avshalomov experimental stereo recordings from 1952 is precisely the sort of thing historical recording buffs don't ever expect to see. Historically, stereo sound doesn't officially appear as a public medium until 1958, but as early as 1930 inventors at EMI in Germany and at Bell Labs were trying to find a way to get more of a three-dimensional sound out of recordings. Leopold Stokowski was a frequent flyer at Bell Labs during this time, utilizing his expert ears and world-class Philadelphia Orchestra as guinea pigs for Bell's experiments, and as more is known about the early technology of multi-channel recording, the clearer it becomes that Stokowski, more so than any non-technician in the business, was the spiritual father of high fidelity. Apart from EMI's Alan Blumlein, whom Stokowski likely never met, he was willing to work with everyone and anyone active in the field of multi-channel recording before its time finally came in 1958.One such pioneer...
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