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REEL 23 [DAT 12]
Spittal Am Semmering, Austria March 17/75
1 & 2. DINNER TABLE SINGING cont'd from reel 22.
Vienna, Austria March 19/75
3. OLD ELEVATOR, at the Musikacadamie.
4. TELEPHONE SOUNDS, Musikacadamie, ringing, dial tone busy signal (2 takes).
[ID 6 25:26]
[ID 7 25:40]
[ID 8 26:37]
[ID 9 27:00]
[ID 10 27:14]
[ID 12 31:07]
5 - 11. SIRENS (5-6 police siren, 7-11 fire sirens).
12. CONVERSATION WITH FIREMEN (in German).
mark * opening garage door, followed by one last siren. [30:34]
[ID 13 31:25]
13. CONVERSATION WITH FIREMEN (in English).
14. OLD READING ROOM, NATIONAL LIBRARY, begins with conversation with guide, then walking over squeaky floors to the reading room.
[ID 15 37:51] & [ID 16 38:13]
15 & 16 mark * leaving reading room, followed quickly by a sequence in the State Hall conversation, pause, walk out and locking the large doors, a) from the inside, b) from the outside.
17. CONVEYOR BELT, NATIONAL LIBRARY STACKS, used to bring books to reading room.
COMMENTARY
3. Note reverberant ambience in hall.
5. Inside garage. Each unit one push. Note special rhythmic pattern.
6. Whistle recorded outside.
7 - 11. All recorded inside garage.
12-13. The firemen tell how the melodic motif of the sirens originated with the custom of having trumpeters stationed on each vehicle to blow the warning (until 1938).
15-16. Excellent examples of changing ambience and heavy wooden doors opening and closing.
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