Phonomono Has Left
Channel: C Porter
Date: 2020-03-03

We have known about the possibility of his channel being taken down by himself for quite some time. The first time that I can recall was back in 2018 after the signing of Article 13. (which did nothing) But as of late he has been under fire by companies that over hear have no say or credit, but can actually get away with harassing people over there. Including a Swiss company that have used his transcriptions for CDs for money and mass distribution. Then they have the audacity to claim that they came up with those transcriptions themselves.  Kala, the man behind the channel decided to take it down.  Entirely.  The deal a few weeks ago was because he wanted to delete his channel, youtube didn't let him delete all his videos, and eventually just put all his videos back up against his say.  So evidently he decided to roll with it.  But now clearly worse things have happened, so he has decided to take it down. I trust that if he had a way around it, he would have went down the route.

I'm really going to miss the uploads from Phonomono.  His transcriptions in most cases, were more pristine than The Prof's 78 transcriptions. (but to be fair, the prof uses CD and LP transcriptions more than 78s) That as well as every single upload of his was actually an original 78 transcription. One of my favorites of his that you can't find anywhere else is The New Yorkers Orchestra - Crazy People (1932). For now we can only hope that he comes back under a new channel here or somewhere else.  

It has been 10 long years.  June 8th 2010 to 2020.  He was part of the golden age of 78 uploading/music uploading here on youtube.  

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