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Originally Posted by Dave S
I was actually surprised at how good some of those recordings can sound. Especially considering that they're recorded on steel with no bias. It ain't HiFi, but it can be fairly enjoyable to listen to. My favorite thing is listening to unidentified recordings which probably haven't been played in over half a century and trying to imagine what was going on. It's like a time machine. "Normal" people are always as amazed when I fire one of those up as when I run a sixty year old TV for them!
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...but at the same time totally charming in another way... is the rest of the statement. And 'tis a time machine indeed!
I worked on one of those wire recorders for a musician who wanted to run his electric guitar through it as an effect. He submitted it to me with a bunch of spools with interesting stuff on them--old standards, etc. Most singular was a spool that had a recording of The Cyclotronist's Nightmare.... lyrics here...
http://www.haverford.edu/physics-ast...erts/cyclo.htm What a treat!
