Encore on Radio Tumbril

                              

 

Like many others I enjoy listening to both shortwave and classical music.

Sadly, since the world has gone digital - and many large state funded stations have gone off the air or reduced their

output - western classical music programmes have almost disappeared.

Radio Romania International is - I think - the only station that regularly broadcasts a concert on their Romanian

service - very early on Sunday mornings.

 

In many ways - of course - it makes no sense to send complex and nuanced sound on shortwave because of all that nature

and man can throw at it en route to the receiver. Signal is sometimes barely discernible above noise.

But that’s the point isn’t it? Like so much in life - the obstacles that make something difficult or unpredictable become

part of the reason for doing it.

 

Luckily classical music doesn’t have to be reproduced in HiFi to be enjoyed - if that was the case, wax cylinders

and shellac discs would have failed to catch on. They didn’t fail because when we hear a tune whistled by someone

across the street - we imagine the full orchestra.

 

Human beings are analogue creatures - and amplitude modulation is our natural environment. Classical

music on shortwave feels to me the most natural thing in the world. But there is hardly any of it left to

tune in to.

 

So I decided to make a western classical music programme and find some transmitter time

to broadcast it. Many thanks to the folks at Channel 292 in Europe, and WRMI in the USA 

for making it possible. Encore has been running continuously for two and a half years.

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Help keep Encore on the air:

Encore is a one-man operation. WRMI and Channel 292 are very generous with their air-time but Encore still costs around 200 Dollars/Euros a month to broadcast.

I'm happy to go on giving my time and such expertise as I have to the project of putting classical music on Shortwave - it's a passion - but I need some help with the costs or Encore will have to stop.

There is a PayPal donation button now on the homepage of this website - www.tumbril.co.uk which folks can use if they want to. If PayPal is no good for you then send me an email and we'll sort something else out.

Thank you.

 

Best wishes to all,

 

Brice Avery - Scotland UK. October 2021