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I am very pleased to announce a unique Radio Dismuke broadcast featuring featuring special guest Kurt Nauck, owner of Nauck's Vintage Records, the world's largest and most prestigious auction house of rare and collectible vintage records. The broadcast will take place in early November from Nauck's impressive and museum-like facilities just outside of Houston, Texas. We conducted a similar broadcast in conjunction with the previous Nauck's auction last April and it was so well received by listeners that we have decided to make it a regular semi-annual feature.
Kurt has very generously agreed to make all of the nearly 10,000 vintage records in his current auction available for the broadcast - and the very best part is the specific records we play will be selected entirely by Radio Dismuke listeners and Nauck's customers. For the duration of the broadcast, Radio Dismuke will depart from its strictly 1920s and 1930s popular music and jazz format and play recordings from just about every musical genre imaginable from the dawn of commercial recorded sound in the 1890s through the end of the 78 rpm era in the late 1950s. Many of the records in the auction are extremely rare and the vast majority have never been reissued in modern formats.
One of the things that is special about the broadcast is that it will provide listeners a rare opportunity to hear very early cylinder records played through Kurt's Archeophone - a modern, electrical playback device designed specifically for the reproduction and preservation of vintage cylinder records. Because an Archeophone costs over $16,000 owning one is beyond the financial reach of the vast majority of private collectors and they are usually found in institutions such as sound archives and national libraries. You, however, will have the privilege of listening to one during the broadcast. Late 19th century wax cylinder records are especially fascinating because very frequently they are the last surviving copies of the recorded performance.
In addition to vintage cylinders and conventional 78 rpm discs, there are other vintage formats in the auction as well including Edison Diamond Discs, radio transcription discs, picture records and cardboard Hit of the Week records. Radio Dismuke listeners have the opportunity to submit requests from a wide variety of musical genres ranging from jazz and dance band music to classical, opera, blues, country and even early rock and roll.
So that listeners in time zones around the world will have an opportunity to tune in, the broadcast will air multiple times between November 4 and November 11. Specific broadcast times will be announced soon in a future posting here as well as on the Radio Dismuke website - so please check back.
Browse through the nearly 10,000 records in Nauck's current auction catalog which you will find here. To make it easier for you to find the type of music you are interested in, the catalog is segmented into musical genres or by certain types of unique records (such as Edison Diamond Discs, cylinder records, picture records, etc.).
When you email your requests, please specify the auction lot number and which side you want to hear. All records in the catalog - including the cylinder records - will be available for play. Because of the logistical challenges of playing records from a wide variety of vintage formats, the broadcast will be pre-recorded so all requests must be submitted in advance. Since it will take a few days to sort through all the requests and to pull the records which will be played, all requests need to be submitted by Saturday, October 28. 2006 . Please email your requests to radio@78rpm.com Important: Please submit your requests to that email address and not to me as it will be Kurt's staff who will be processing the requests and pulling the records.
If you collect 78 rpm records and see items in the auction that you would like to bid on, the auction closes on Saturday, November 11.
I am very excited about this upcoming broadcast and hope you will have a chance to listen. The broadcast will be a unique opportunity to hear some extremely rare and historic recordings - a good number of which have not been available to a public audience in many decades. It is another example of how Internet radio is able to provide to a worldwide audience highly specialized, quality programing that traditional media outlets are simply not able or willing to take on.
Kurt has very generously agreed to make all of the nearly 10,000 vintage records in his current auction available for the broadcast - and the very best part is the specific records we play will be selected entirely by Radio Dismuke listeners and Nauck's customers. For the duration of the broadcast, Radio Dismuke will depart from its strictly 1920s and 1930s popular music and jazz format and play recordings from just about every musical genre imaginable from the dawn of commercial recorded sound in the 1890s through the end of the 78 rpm era in the late 1950s. Many of the records in the auction are extremely rare and the vast majority have never been reissued in modern formats.
One of the things that is special about the broadcast is that it will provide listeners a rare opportunity to hear very early cylinder records played through Kurt's Archeophone - a modern, electrical playback device designed specifically for the reproduction and preservation of vintage cylinder records. Because an Archeophone costs over $16,000 owning one is beyond the financial reach of the vast majority of private collectors and they are usually found in institutions such as sound archives and national libraries. You, however, will have the privilege of listening to one during the broadcast. Late 19th century wax cylinder records are especially fascinating because very frequently they are the last surviving copies of the recorded performance.
In addition to vintage cylinders and conventional 78 rpm discs, there are other vintage formats in the auction as well including Edison Diamond Discs, radio transcription discs, picture records and cardboard Hit of the Week records. Radio Dismuke listeners have the opportunity to submit requests from a wide variety of musical genres ranging from jazz and dance band music to classical, opera, blues, country and even early rock and roll.
So that listeners in time zones around the world will have an opportunity to tune in, the broadcast will air multiple times between November 4 and November 11. Specific broadcast times will be announced soon in a future posting here as well as on the Radio Dismuke website - so please check back.
How To Submit Your Requests
Browse through the nearly 10,000 records in Nauck's current auction catalog which you will find here. To make it easier for you to find the type of music you are interested in, the catalog is segmented into musical genres or by certain types of unique records (such as Edison Diamond Discs, cylinder records, picture records, etc.).
When you email your requests, please specify the auction lot number and which side you want to hear. All records in the catalog - including the cylinder records - will be available for play. Because of the logistical challenges of playing records from a wide variety of vintage formats, the broadcast will be pre-recorded so all requests must be submitted in advance. Since it will take a few days to sort through all the requests and to pull the records which will be played, all requests need to be submitted by Saturday, October 28. 2006 . Please email your requests to radio@78rpm.com Important: Please submit your requests to that email address and not to me as it will be Kurt's staff who will be processing the requests and pulling the records.
If you collect 78 rpm records and see items in the auction that you would like to bid on, the auction closes on Saturday, November 11.
I am very excited about this upcoming broadcast and hope you will have a chance to listen. The broadcast will be a unique opportunity to hear some extremely rare and historic recordings - a good number of which have not been available to a public audience in many decades. It is another example of how Internet radio is able to provide to a worldwide audience highly specialized, quality programing that traditional media outlets are simply not able or willing to take on.
