The Old Phono Blog
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- Written by: Andy Greene
'Two Trains Runnin'' fuses the story of the Mississippi Burning murders with the search for Son House and Skip James
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On Thursday (10/19) and Friday (10/20) this week, Cornell University will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Voyager Golden Record, the gold phonograph records launched into space in 1977 as a message to extraterrestrials. All events are free and the public is invited.
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Flood of popular melodies is set loose in London court to horror of attaches and delight of spectators! Diary describes nightly din, arousing neighbors...
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How and why the great invention has disapointed its backers. The failure due to defects that are real enough, but may be overcome. The instrument virtually a toy yet, but with a tremendous future.
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- Written by: Gabriela Helfet
Collecting records might be a notoriously expensive endeavour, but right now hundreds of thousands of records are waiting to be played for free at awe-inspiring listening stations around the world. These library sound archives have records ranging from oratorial opera vocal tubes created in 1901, to comprehensive catalogues of original Motown pressings and field recordings of Polynesian tribes from the 1950s.
Here are five of the most extensive – and eclectic – record libraries across the globe, with architecture credentials that match their collections.
- Done By The Phonograph: Unique Uses To Which Talking Machines Are Put
- The First Jazz Recording Turns 100
- A Phonograph School For Parrots
- Victrola trademark bought by Long Island Company
- Sounds from Shanghai
- Bix Beiderbecke Museum and Archive Opens
- Thomas Edison and the Eclipse of 1878
- Free Discography Downloads
- Edison invented recordings – but it was the phonography studios of Spain that popularised them
- Forget the vinyl comeback. See a house stuffed with antique phonographs.
- Restoring a vintage 1920s recording system for 'American Epic'
- 30,000 78rpm Records Are Now In a Digital Archive