Mysterious Recordings Will Be Played for the First Time in a Century

thevintagenews.com/ ^ | Apr 6, 2022 | Madeline Hiltz

[1Old Pro]

used to by maxell by the case :)

[mowowie]

Remember the blank cassette tape wars?
Memorex, Maxell, Fuji etc..

The frigging good old days..

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin. Thoroughly Modern Miscellany.

[Monkey Face]

I’ll make sure to listen. But how will we know they didn’t change the content?

‘Face

;o]

[BenLurkin]

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2022/04/06/recordings-played-for-first-time-century/?edg-c=1

[one guy in new jersey]

There is one guy who in his youth had been known to recite the alphabet with one long loud continuous burp. Mentioning this for a friend.

[SaveFerris]

Hard to forget the wreck of the Ella Fitzgerald. / Seinfeld

[SaveFerris]

“Send more Chuck Berry”

[BenLurkin]

Agreed.

They probably sound a bit like this:

Live recording from 1903
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIB0XXEKYgk

Mapleson Cylinders: Tosca “LIVE”: Eames, de Marchi, Scotti, etc. (1903)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTJv5qC62Bg

[one guy in new jersey]

There are recordings from circa 1860 that have been processed and played back.

As I recall, the recordings were made by a man speaking/singing into a the wide end of a cone and recorded by some kind of vibrating brush or pen or marker of some sort onto paper or a card or strip. The result was a linear waveform. No means for any kind of playback existed until recently. The man was singing Clair de Lune I think and you can actually hear it. Cool stuff.

[Red Badger]

LOL!.........................

[Albion Wilde]

“For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.” —Luke 8:17

[one guy in new jersey]

Here’s a video that plays the original and all the subsequent versions after processing and refinement:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=znKNQXo58pE

[Carthego delenda est]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lEFx1qmW4ts

[clearcarbon]

"This modern machine, invented by Nicholas Bergh, can digitize wax cylinders thanks to a laser and needle combination.

I've always thought any record might be read using some kind of laser or acoustic scanning device yielding a kind of no-touch pick-up.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I remember my father using a Dictaphone in the early 60s to record dictation on plastic belts. We had an old wax-cylinder machine around the house too, but it didn’t work.

[mass55th]

In 100 years time, they will play mysterious recordings of Joe Biden, and language experts will be severely challenged, trying to translate, and attempt to put into perspective, what the hell he was saying.

[sauropod]

Looking forward to this! I need to learn much more about it.

[Revel]

I am actually looking for one that was restored using the laser they are talking about in the article.

[Fresh Wind]

I remember the good old daze when you used to see balls of tangled tape blowing around by the roadside like little tumbleweeds.