Mr. F.W. Gaisberg
c/o the Gramophone Company
Hayes, Middlesex My dear Mr. Gaisberg, I have finished the recording of eight faces of my miscellaneous compositions for piano solo and should be glad if you would send me a contract for them.
I did my work with much attention and perseverance and I hope that the result, from the standpoint of playing, will be satisfactory. Yet, the quality of sound is disappointing to the last degree. When, after these records, I heard those of Rachmaninoff playing with Stokowski, or of Horowitz, made in London - almost as good, I found that the piano in my records sounds "comme une casserole". I do not know to what it should be attributed, for the Steinway piano on which I recorded was bad (dry) only in the upper octaves, but I think your Paris recording department should earnestly work to attain for the piano the same acceptable quality of sound which was already, and several years ago, obtained in other cities.
I hope you will accept these friendly remarks in the same friendly way, for they are encompassing our mutual interests. Sincerely yours, |
