whoa, a lot to dig through there - the podcasts page looks like a great start, thanks!
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 03:46 (nine years ago) link
New BBC series Sound Of Song is relevant to this thread, recreating old recording devices. Episode 1 is on iPlayer.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 07:28 (nine years ago) link
Other thread with related info is: What is Country?
with most important relevant link to here:http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/recording.technology.history/notes.html
― Mike j'Abo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 25 January 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
Original link still works!
― Mark G, Sunday, 25 January 2015 22:31 (nine years ago) link
Sorry, wasn't thinking about original link just repurposing thread a little to be links to old time recording methods references, such as the Audio Engineering Society Recording Technology History page I just linked to, since I was not aware of some such other thread.
― Mike j'Abo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 January 2015 00:10 (nine years ago) link
NY Times profile of WFMU's gramophone/cylinders specialist (and a high-school classmate of yrs truly) Mike Cumella:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/nyregion/a-gramophone-dj-cranks-up-the-volume.html
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 17 October 2015 05:10 (eight years ago) link
And the original UCSB archive site has been updated.
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/index.php
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 November 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link
also related, at IU-Bloomington:
http://news.iu.edu/releases/iu/2015/10/media-digitization-preservation-initiative-opening.shtml
― sleeve, Friday, 6 November 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
Meantime, there's this -- Archeophone has a lot of good stuff in their catalog.
http://archeophone.com/catalogue/waxing-the-gospel/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 August 2016 14:39 (seven years ago) link
No "A Day in a Country School" by George Graham :(― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, November 17, 2005 12:09 AM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Eureka! I have found it!
https://i78s.org/preview/6d691a230a67c765dd0998f8f30f48cd
This "monologue" or speech or whatever you want to call it is listed in Harry Smith's liner notes to the Anthology of American Folk Music as one of several Berliner discs that were a precursor to folk music. It "includes a unique recording of chanted mathematical problems." Great stuff, and from what I can discern through the static it sounds like he's using the word "five" as a synonym for "double".
Five one is twoFive two is fourFive four is eightFive eight is sixteenFive sixteen is thirty-twoFive thirty-two is sixty-fourFive sixty-four is... five sixty fours is... oh stop that nonsense never mind. Well that's good enough for today.
Ha!
People people, oh dear gentle ILX folk, I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS RECORDING FOR LITERALLY LIKE TWENTY YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 10 March 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
is he saying "twice"?
― koogs, Saturday, 11 March 2023 08:39 (one year ago) link
Inventing the whole bit system!
― Mark G, Saturday, 11 March 2023 09:01 (one year ago) link
Nice! Wish the site played on mobile. I'm having a go at doing a bit of careful restoration on the track, will see if I can make it any clearer.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 11 March 2023 23:36 (one year ago) link
Well it's clearer but the restoration is more drastic than careful, might have another go tomorrow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOh3iTlrLj8
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 11 March 2023 23:52 (one year ago) link
Oh and this is the best (and most annoying) archive, it's not on this thread for some reason
https://www.russian-records.com
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 11 March 2023 23:54 (one year ago) link