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incision recording and its attendant surface noise. In 1949 the
era of electric hi-fi was another rescuer of the phonograph
business. The hi-fi quest for “realistic sound” soon merged with
the TV image as part of the recovery of tactile experience. For
the sensation of having the performing instruments “right in
the room with you” is a striving toward the union of the audile
and tactile in a finesse of fiddles that is in large degree the
sculptural experience. To be in the presence of performing
musicians is to experience their touch and handling of
instruments as tactile and kinetic, not just as resonant. So it
can be said that hi-fi is not any quest for abstract effects of
sound in separation from the other senses. With hi-fi, the
phonograph meets the TV tactile challenge.
Stereo sound, a further development, is “all-around” or
“wraparound” sound. Previously sound had emanated from a