Early Wax Cylinder Recordings on CD

Subject: RE: Early Wax Cylinder Recordings on CD
From: masato sakurai
Date: 01 Jun 02 - 02:08 PM

Other sites (the first two are at American Memory):

Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Company (Click on "Sound Recordings", with interesting articles on Edison cylinder phonograph and disc phonograph)

Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry (Click on "Recordings")

American Pop: An Audio History -- From Minstrel to Mojo: On Record, 1893-1946 (with sound clips)

~Masato

Subject: RE: Early Wax Cylinder Recordings on CD
From: ard mhacha
Date: 01 Jun 02 - 01:57 PM

Thanks Susan,fascinating stuff. Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: Early Wax Cylinder Recordings on CD
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 Jun 02 - 12:00 PM

And check out their CYLINDER OF THE MONTH ARCHIVE, which contains a bunch of downloadable full-song souhnd files.

There is also a pictorial tour of early sound facts and technical stuff!

~Susan

Subject: Early Wax Cylinder Recordings on CD
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 Jun 02 - 11:55 AM

Check out THE CYLINDER MUSIC SHOP! Recordings from 1885 forward. Some sound clips online-- and you know, the sound quality ain't bad!

~Susan