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Monday, November 21, 2005
9:15:00 AM EST
Hearing The Start of Forever -- Paul Weller
Forget LPs. Forget 45s. Heck, forget 78s. If you want to really get old school about sound recordings, you need to go back to phonograph cylinders,
the earliest mass recording medium, pioneered by none other than Thomas
Edison. These babies were popular in the latest part of the 19th and
earliest part of the 20th centuries, and they sound just as tinny and
old-fashioned as you imagine.
But you don't have to imagine: avail yourself of the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, which features a digital collection of over 5,000 cylinder recordings, all of which can be accessed and downloaded for your delight. If you want to hear what that other "turn of the century" sounded like, this is pretty exciting stuff.
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9:15:00 AM EST
Hearing The Start of Forever -- Paul Weller
As Old School As Old School Can Get
Forget LPs. Forget 45s. Heck, forget 78s. If you want to really get old school about sound recordings, you need to go back to phonograph cylinders,
the earliest mass recording medium, pioneered by none other than Thomas
Edison. These babies were popular in the latest part of the 19th and
earliest part of the 20th centuries, and they sound just as tinny and
old-fashioned as you imagine. But you don't have to imagine: avail yourself of the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, which features a digital collection of over 5,000 cylinder recordings, all of which can be accessed and downloaded for your delight. If you want to hear what that other "turn of the century" sounded like, this is pretty exciting stuff.
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UGH, as a one time resident of Edison and oh, my husband grew up in what is called Menlo Park Terrace, I have to tell you Thomas Edison and his work is so poorly memorialized. The Edison Tower is a dump. The 5 or so times I've been there, it was locked up,weeds growing everywhere and the tower..well I have NEVER seen it lit. http://www.edisonnj.org/menlo
park/savethetower/ There's more on the phonograph here. -
My grandmother had a cylinder phonograph, and my sister and I used to play those tinny recordings, so I loved finding out about this site; thank you!
:)
Judi -
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I am working on a short story set in 1915 and needed some musical inspiration. Now I can listen to some of the music while I write. This rocks!
Can't tell I'm happy, can you. It's always the simple things... :)
Jess
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11/21/05 1:09 PM
natalie