That circus where I lost my time....

[rejectomorph]

Totally cylindrical!

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project. It's goatloads of old Edison cylinder recordings, some downloadable, plus a selection of them can be streamed while your browse. And yes, they have "Yes We Have No Bananas", as recorded in 1923 by the Green Bros. Novelty Band. What more could one ask of any website?


Still cold, by the way, but a bit less so than yesterday. Rain still persists in not falling, as the year ticks away. We're doomed to thirst through summer, perhaps. Well, there's always beer.

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[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

You know what I'd like someone to digitize, if it hasn't been done already? The cylinders recorded by Bartok of Hungarian folk music. Of course, from what I've listened to of cylinders (like The Mapelson Cylinders, a famous opera artifact), the sound is actually so scritchy on many of them I can't enjoy it anyway, but for the Bartok stuff I'd make an effort.

[rejectomorph]

Some of the UCSB MP3's sound fairly decent to me (or as decent as they can on my crappy speakers), and others are very bad. The software they use to clean them up is better than it once was, and minimizes the scratches. I heard a lot of 78s growing up and maybe that's why I don't mind the low-fi and clicks and pops so much. Problems with pitch, though, drive me batshit crazy. Any music file that goes off pitch I have to delete immediately.