Download 10,000 of the First Recordings of Music Ever Made, Courtesy of the University of California-Santa Barbara via Open Culture [Shared]

Long before vinyl records, cassette tapes, CDs and MP3s came along, people first experienced audio recordings through another medium — through cylinders made of tin foil, wax and plastic. In recent years, we’ve featured cylinder recordings from the 19th century that allow you to hear the voices of Leo Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, Walt Whitman, Otto von Bismarck and other historic figures. Those recordings were originally recorded and played on a cylinder phonograph invented by Thomas Edison in 1877. But those were obviously just a handful of the cylinder recordings produced at the beginning of the recorded sound era.

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#TimeTravelAuthors & #SciFi fans know that various styles of #gyrosocopic devices have stood in for #TimeMachines going all the way back to #HGWells's original 'The Time Machine' of 1895 (see 'Contact' movie of 1997). #Quantum #physicists have proposed colossal rotating #cylinders, and other #theories employing #wormholes — macro to micro — again, #spinning #mechanical #systems. @KronoMoon remains open to all manner of #TimeTravel approaches, including via #quantum #signals or #consciousness.

https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2024/11/sound-archive-acquires-new-technology-for-digitising-wax-cylinders.html
#Soundarchive acquires new technology for #digitising wax #cylinders
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We’re delighted to announce that the sound archive now has the privilege of housing one of only two Endpoint cylinder replay machines in Europe, expanding our capabilities for preserving historical audio recordings in the #UK.
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#britishlibrary

Before there were 78s, there were cylinders! Join Boneapart this Tuesday at 7:00am EST] for a deep dive into the world of cylinder music. We'll be spinning some rare and beautiful recordings from the early days of recorded sound.

#AntiqueMusic #HistoryOfSound #ThreeTuneTuesday #78rpm #78rpmmusic #cylinders #edison #music

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cylinders + oblate spheroids = a curvaceous combo! 🌐🔘 Get ready for a dynamic shape that's perfect for rolling and spinning. It's all about that sleek geometry! ✨ #Cylinders #OblateSpheroids #Curves

(I asked discord Clyde to write a tweet about a cylinder with 2 oblate spheroids)

Did you know that 78 RPM was only a suggestion for the first few years of phonographs? If a record was recorded at a different speed, it changes the key of the song to play back at 78. A remarkable website allows you to tweak the playback of old recordings to get the speed right, and to take out hiss & pops and to simulate room tone. It’s like colorization for music. This is the instructional video for the collection. #Edison #Cylinders #78RPM #MusicalHeritage https://vimeo.com/585399927

For people who value recordings from the earliest years of recording (cylinders and very, very early 78 RPM and *pre* 78 RPM disks), this is the instructional video for a remarkable collection. #Edison #Cylinders #78RPM #MusicalHeritage https://vimeo.com/585399927