cylinder recordings

Jack

Hi all,

This isn't really gypsy jazz related, but I thought some of you might be interested, especially after our long thread on out of print recordings:
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

Here's the article that led me to it (lots more press at the first link as well):
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/03/16/features/pop.php

Best,
Jack.

Jack

Also, if you're interested in this sort of thing, the article's author has a blog that includes a lot of good links for old sheet music.
http://theanachronist.blogspot.com/

Best,
Jack.

Cuimean

Here's something else about rare cylinder recordings:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=arl3dPA7rLc

nwilkins

man i hate that video - poor guy

Cuimean

It's tragic, but for me, it underscores some of the thoughts about media that I've been having lately. I've been unemployed for a while now and unable to buy as many recordings as I used to, and I've found that I've been digging in deeper to the stuff I already have and going to see more free live shows than I ever did before, and it's been really enjoyable. These recordings that I've been collecting are eventually going to be unplayable, so I'd better get as much of the stuff I really like into my head while I'm still alive. That cylinder was probably around 100 years old. Magnetic tape probably has a shorter lifespan. Early CDs are starting to fail as moisture gets in between the plastic discs, and CD-Rs have been estimated to have a lifespan of only two to five years. I love geeking out as a collector and finding weird or rare stuff, but it's every once in a while, it's nice to take a step back and remind myself that it's the music on that media that got me excited in the first place.

nwilkins

my solution to this problem is to put everything on an external hard drive, with another external hard drive in reserve. When the first crashes I will start using the second, and buy another back up.