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Whan that Somer with his fon hadde gone The CLERKES hadde al bak to scole yronne, And filled ech rome with swich a swete soun To mak the halles with ladies lough resounen. And oft twas seyde by them as hadde an ye That they wewr al engaged in villainye...
...sales of Toscanini disks, which once far outdistanced the rest of the classical record field, dropped off sharply after stereo appeared. Alarmed, RCA in 1958 assigned an engineer-composer named Jack Somer. then 23, to see if he could save Toscanini for stereo. It took him two years to produce a recording that sounded convincing and that was not afflicted with such normal recording hazards as "grit, ticks and swish...
...Somer's technique is based on the fact that in the usual symphony orchestra, the higher pitched instruments (violins and higher winds) are concentrated on the left, the lower pitched instruments (cellos, bass, brass, tympani) to the right. With a maze of controls he called "the rat's nest," Somer was able to divide a monophonic recording into two separate sound tracks, generally using a high-pass filter to channel the high-frequency violins and winds to the left, a low-pass filter to place the low-frequency instruments to the right. With further gimmicks, such...
...Bachman: "You have a single signal to start with. We don't think there is any honest way to make two out of it. It's like separating mush and milk; once you get them together, you can't get them apart." RCA's Somer concedes that his technique is a compromise: too much separation results in an alteration of the original sound. Moreover, in pseudo stereo "you can spread the sound around the room, but there is no way to get the feeling, as in true stereo, of the proper positioning of the individual instruments...
...Through his father, Sherman Adams is de scended from the Henry Adams who left Somer set, England in 1638, settled in Braintree, Mass., and founded an American dynasty. Henry Adams' seventh son, Joseph, was the great-great-grandfather of President John Adams and the great-great-great-grandfather of President John Quincy Adams. Sherman Adams traces his lineage through Henry Adams' eighth (and last) son, Edward. *The 399-member New Hampshire house of representatives, the nations' second-largest lawmaking body, includes a representative from every incorporated township with a population of at least...