Old Wine in New Bottles was presented by vice-president Lyndon Johnson, who told how music is transcribed from old recordings to CD.

With the use of many examples, Lyndon showed how different recording transposing engineers can get a different sound from the same original copy.

Members heard recordings from such artistes as Dame Myra Hess, Solomon, Kirsten Flagstadt, Harold Williams and Maggie Tate.

There were examples of where a tape had been spliced to join two sides of an original 78, and even one recording, of Delius' On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring where the two sides had been recorded two years apart, with different musicians in a different venue, and then joined together, rather noticeably.

A repeating groove in a 1945Yehudi Menuhin recording had not been removed before transposition to CD, and what, according to Lyndon must be "the worst side join in the world" - an eight-second gap during music by Eric Coates.