{"id":11975,"date":"2015-01-12T08:17:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T12:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11975"},"modified":"2015-01-12T08:17:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T12:17:44","slug":"orchestral-music-on-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/orchestral-music-on-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchestral music on shortwave?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Eric (w4OTN\/3), asks:<\/p>\n

Years ago I loved tuning in Radio Bulgaria<\/a> and listening to their orchestra play. The ether would deliver the beautiful music to my ears with some fading at times but I loved listening to it. That is, of course, until they stopped broadcasting. I’ve tried to find an alternative without success.<\/p>\n

I wonder if you know of any shortwave station that still broadcast orchestras?<\/p>\n

Thanks,
\nEric W4OTN\/3<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Any suggestions for Eric? \u00a0Please comment with details!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SWLing Post reader, Eric (w4OTN\/3), asks: Years ago I loved tuning in Radio Bulgaria and listening to their orchestra play. The ether would deliver the beautiful music to my ears with some fading at times but I loved listening to it. That is, of course, until they stopped broadcasting. I’ve tried to find an alternative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[442,3,43,1167],"tags":[611,3527,4082],"class_list":["post-11975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-shortwave-music","tag-shortwave-orchestra","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-379","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44333,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/can-you-help-john-identify-a-vintage-shortwave-radio-book\/","url_meta":{"origin":11975,"position":0},"title":"Can you help John identify a vintage shortwave radio book–?","author":"Thomas","date":"July 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, John (KC8RZM), who writes: I wonder if anyone at SWLing can help me identify this book on shortwave listening from my childhood. 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