The Post-Standard from Syracuse, New York • Page 12

i 12 THE POST-STANDARD, November 9, 1164 Audio ert Achieves Re Success To Premiere at Hostel Convention i A new documentary called "Once Upon the Erie Canal" will have its local premiere Friday at Hotel Syracuse at an evening session of the American Youth Hostel's national convention this weekend. Almost 100 delegates from throughout the country and several hundred area persons interested in hostelling will attend the convention which ends Monday. The movie was produced by the Syracuse University Motion Picture Production Department. The Friday session is open to the public because of local interest in the Barge Canal Parkway to extend from Fayetteville to Rome. I Area Junior Miss Pageant Slated High School girls will compete in the Onondaga County Junior Miss pageant at 8 p.m.

Saturday in the Bishop Ludden High School auditorium. Contestants will be judged on a i scholastic achievement and physical fitness. Saturday's winner will participate in the state contest In Rochester Nov. 21-25. The local pageant Is sponsored by the West Gencsee Jaycees.

By CONNIE MYER Bringing "old up to date with new recording techniques is the consuming passion of Syracuse University's Walter L. Welch. A bespectacled man who calls himself a "dabbler in everything," Welch is director of the university's audio archives' and Thomas A. Edison He-recording Laboratory. In.

the archives headquar- iters in the basement of the former Continental. Can Co. building on E. Water St. is a strange and varied collection of old phonographs, amplifiers and recordings, side by side with the latest electronic gear for tape recording.

Welch, a long time phonograph hobbyist, recently presented some of the fruits bi' his work at a meeting of the university's Library Associates Board of Trustees. Syracuse has the most ex; tensive and innovative re; recording lab of university, Welch says. One of his devices, for taking the hisses and I scratches out of old.cylinder and flat recordings recently, was patented. amazed at how the quality of sound improves with better techniques," says Welch, formerly a teacher in the State University College-of Forestry landscape architecture department. "It's an important teaching and cultural concern to demonstrate how early musical artists really sounded." Taking some of the earliest wax cylinders, made by Tho: mas A.

Edison in the early 1900s, Welch played them on an old Edison cylinder machine, powered 'by electric batteries. One of the early Edison col- lection "gems" that he played for the library trustees is an 1888 wax ''phonogram'- sent to Edison in 1S88 from London. It contains the voice of Sir Cecil Yates, Britain's postmaster- general, congratulating Edison on his "revolution in human communication." "Edison first conceived of his recording invention as a business machine for sending messages on cylinders," said Welch. But, like the present day, fears of "automation" and too much competition with stenographers and the new typewriter, froze the market. So Edison turned to recording music.

Those early records that all of us have heard on occasion had plenty of technical limitations, but, Welch said, they also had some surprisingly successful points. Edison wax cylinders, for example, have lasted remarkably well through the years. Fungus is their greatest enemy. And Edison used a dia- mond stylus on his machines 40 years before it came into general use. Syracuse has access to all the old Edison discs and molds because of arrangements with the Edison Foundation which supports the re-recording here.

Exciting discoveries of previously recordings are being made at Edison's library and laboratory in West Orange N.J., now a national historic site. For instance, an almost worn-out cylinder of Gladstone's voice was found in the dust behind a cot in Edison's library. The i re-recording techniques developed here at Syracuse have a a worldwide, attention. The British Institute for Recorded Sound is interested in the Syracuse equipment, arid Columbia University would like SU to re-record some African folk i music from its anthropological collection. Radio Corp.

of America has. sent some early test pressings of its records for re-recording here, and RCA i 1 600 Members Expected At farm Bureau Sessions About 6M New York State a afternoon. Roger Farm Bureau members -are Fleming, secretary-treasurer have observe Welch's Assist ing in his work are engineer Warren Lombard and audio expert Richard Burns of the School of Music. So far, one commercial record, "The Sound of Fame," has been produced; based on SU work with the old Edison cylinders, More will be issued in the future. expected to attend the bureau's annual three-day meeting beginning Monday at the Hotel Syracuse.

Registration will begin at noon. Three luncheon conferences are scheduled for Monday: They are Women's Conference, the Young People's Conference and a Marketing I was a little girl, things rotten only in Denmark." of the Washington Farm Bureau office will speak Tuesday night. This will be followed by awards to and recognition of county bureau units throughout the state. Farm Bureau 'official delegates will consider resolutions and adopt policies for 1967 at Wednesday's session. 'PILLS, PILLS, PILLS' Pills, Pills, Who Needs Them?" is the title of a free pamphlet available at the Onondaga Health Association.

Judging and selection of the State Farm Bureau Princess will be Monday Scheduled for. Tuesday' are reports and'election of officers. Panel discussions on subjects are slated EDUCATION WEEK Parents 'of St. Cecilia's School will be welcomed to an open house between 9 to 11 a.m. and from 12:45 to 2 p.m.

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