Cylinder Recordings

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Moderator: talking_animal
Gruppenstatus: Offen
Gegründet am: 18. Mär. 2006
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This group is for anyone interested in early 20th century cylinder recordings, thousands of which are streamable and downloadable at http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/. There you can...

Back in the old days, sonny...

Before there were MP3s, before there were CDs, before there were audiocassettes, before there were long-playing records, before there were 45 RPM singles, before there were 10-inch 78 RPM albums, before there was any of that, there were cylinders. They work on the same principle as vinyl records except for spinning flat, they spin around (see the picture in the group avatar).

Cylinders, which are fragile and easily damaged, are now collector's items. Many of them have made their way into libraries over the years, however, and the University of California Santa Barbara has put together an electronic archive of these recordings, many of which date back to the first decades of the 20th century.

I urge you to go over to the UCSB website, which is very easy to navigate, and listen to some of the wonderful music they have digitized and put up for access via World Wide Web. It's history, yes, but the sounds are so fresh and exciting and rewarding you won't feel as if it is from your great-great-grandmother's time.

Aktive Diskussionen

IanAR kommentierte
"Video Recordings of Cylinder Recordings" Januar 2010

cklequ kommentierte
"Thomas Edison's Attic at WFMU" (3) März 2009

JakobVirgil kommentierte
"John J Kimmel" (3) November 2008

IanAR kommentierte
"Archive.org/details/cylindertransfer & Cylinder.de" Oktober 2006

PappaWheelie kommentierte
"Arthur Pryor's Band" Oktober 2006

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Shoutbox

Sage etwas. Melde dich bei Last.fm an oder registriere ein neues Benutzerkonto (es kostet nichts).

tideghost

Someone shared this link with me yesterday ... "50 Records That Matter, 1900-1919" ... http://aceterrier.com/?page_id=1502

September 2011
tideghost

Historic Sound Recordings Around the Web: http://www.phonozoic.net/listening.html - Survey of leading Acoustic Era artists: http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_fwh/book/native_music_styles/Acoustic%20Era%20Artists2.htm

September 2010
tideghost

I came across a listener today on Last.fm who said he's interested in finding music from the 1890s and the early 20th century. Here are the links I sent to him in case anyone else might find these helpful -- http://www.archive.org/details/78rpm -- http://www.last.fm/group/Cylinder+Recordings -- http://www.last.fm/group/78+RPMs -- http://www.last.fm/group/1920s+and+1930s+Jazz -- http://www.tinfoil.com/ -- http://www.archeophone.com/ -- http://timbrooks.net/histrecordind/onehit.cfm -- http://www.firstsounds.org/ -- http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/

Januar 2010
thevitaminb12

you can listen to various homemade cylinder recordings from the ucsb archive at another remote village.

August 2009
tideghost

Recommended book: "Popular American Recording Pioneers 1895-1925" by Tim Gracyk with Frank Hoffmann.

Juli 2009
BurntGarage47

i really like some of that old ragtime music

Juni 2009
JakobVirgil

Is it the plan to make the entire ucsb collection streamable on last.fm? -Jake

Dezember 2008
remotevillage

some hawaiian cylinders from the ucsb collection can be heard on the remote village label.

November 2008
JakobVirgil

Its hard to be active when most of us have been dead since 1945. -Jake

November 2008
Zer0_II

I couldn't agree more with you Celuie. I only wish the group was more active.

November 2008
Celuie

So great, that this group exists... I really wouldn't had expected on last.fm..

August 2008