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To the question “When were recordings invented?”, we might be tempted to answer “1877” – the year when Thomas A Edison was first able to record and playback sound with a phonograph. But what if we think of recordings not as mere carriers of sound, but as commodities that can be bought and sold, as artefacts capable of capturing and embodying values and emotions; of defining a generation, a country or a social class? The story then becomes one that unfolds over three decades and is full of many layers and ramifications.
Brian Gorrell spent most of his career teaching music to children, including directing the Henry Clay High School Band in the 1970s. But for the past two decades, he has sold, repaired and collected their ancestors’ mechanical music machines.
Adam Savage tells the story behind American Epic, the culmination of a two-decade-long project to reassemble a one-of-a-kind 1920s recording system and the exhausting restoration of hundreds of the era’s forgotten musical works.
A giant pile of forgotten 78rpm records is now online.
A group over at the Internet Archive finally released their ambitious project. It’s being dubbed The Great 78 RPM Project!, and its mission is to post a vast digital collection of 78rpm records online. Currently, you can access and download over 30,000 records and cylinder recordings.