"Cylinder recordings, the first commercially produced sound recordings, are a snapshot of musical and popular culture in the decades around the turn of the 20th century. They have long held the fascination of collectors and have presented challenges for playback and preservation by archives and collectors alike.
"On this site you will have the opportunity to find out more about the cylinder format, listen to thousands of musical and spoken selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discover a little-known era of recorded sound."
This "Cylinder Preservation" website is the sort of internet-only use of technology that I absolutely adore (see my April 23rd post about old van Gogh).
Want to hear a Sarah Bernhardt recitation? Want to hear the first recording of Thomas Edison? Want to hear Enrico Caruso's actual singing voice? All this & more just a few clicks away, for free, to explore as deeply as you want.
I also groove on the idea that those wax-cylinder recordings represented 'cutting edge' technology when new, about a hundred years ago; a century from now what technology will people use to learn about a little thing we called 'the internet'?
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