Marshall Price writes:

Lewis Perin wrote:
Marshall Price writes:

[...]
(Off topic: about old high-quality portable tape recorders.)
[...]
I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to record more bird songs, because
those I did were incredibly beautiful at low speed.
Billie Holiday in her prime played back at half speed sounds like
Louis Armstrong: glorious.

Shucks. I've missed a lot, focusing on only sixty subjects at a time.

But at least I saw Louis Armstrong live. It was on the site of the
1939 New York World's Fair, in an open-air theater with the stage on
an island. He was a real tape-recorder fanatic!

Next time you're in New York, you need to visit the Armstrong home
(which is now a museum), not far from the World's Fair site.

/Lew
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