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The Potomac Concert Band Performs

July 4, 2008 at Constitution Park

There is a picture of me in the Guinness Book of Records with the reddest face ever seen on a live body. I failed to start the recording session with a fresh battery. The recorded portion is several selections short of a concert. Apologies -- Charles Toth

Sound is not up to par? Read below

  1. Star Spangled Banner
  2. Semper Fidelis March
  3. The Magnificent Seven
  4. Sounds from Kenny Rogers
  5. Summertime
  6. Leroy Anderson Portrait
  7. George Washington Bicentennial March

Intermission

  1. El Capitan March
  2. All You Need is Love
  3. Big Band Favorites
  4. Within These Hallowed Halls
  5. America
  6. Stars and Strips Forever March
  7. God Bless America

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The technology use to record the concert was MP3. This technology saves only about one tenth the musical information you created. Nothing from an MP3 source should be considered high fidelity -- ever!"

To reproduce low notes effectively via a speaker into a room, the speaker must be large and enclosed in a box which matches the speaker. Absolute bare minimum almost acceptable size: six inches diameter. Listening to these selections on ordinary computer speakers will be sorely deficient in low tones and a disappointing experience.

You can improve overall response by using quality (quality!) earphones or ear buds which feed sound directly into the ear canal. You can change the size of your room to match the speakers (yeah, right!) which is what is done with automobile sound. That gets messed up when you add more passengers.

I have listened to these sound files on a medium quality high fidelity sound system and was pleased with the sound reproduction. I hope you have good earphones, good earbuds, or can hook up to a decent sound system. Otherwise there's a frowny emoticon floating above your head.

Once again: I apologize for the battery fiasco. It won't happen again.

Charles Toth
Keyser WV
July 7, 2008

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