CHARM Symposium 3: Transfer and the recording as historical document
Special session on comparing transfers
Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham - 20-22 April 2006
As part of the third symposium a special session on comparing transfers was held. Transfer experts attending the symposium were asked to transfer the same 78rpm 1928 recording of David Devries (1881-1934) singing 'Réverie de George Brown' (Boieldieu, La Dame Blanche) with orchestra, Parlophone R 20069, matrix XXP 6659-ii. In the session the experts explained their approaches and the techniques used to arrive at their respective 'interpretations'.
Click on the links in the table to find out more about the approaches used and also to hear the resulting transfers:
| Name | Flat transfer | Transfer | Accompanying documents |
| Roger Beardsley | N/A | Click to download mp3 file (mp3 file); wav file (wav file) | Devries record: the approach (pdf file) |
| Ted Kendall | N/A | Click to download mp3 file (mp3 file); wav file (wav file) | N/A |
| Mark Obert-Thorn | N/A | Click to download mp3 file (mp3 file); wav file (wav file) | The effects of different techniques (pdf file) |