<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><h1 style="font-size:1.8em;font-family:Arial,Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Wax cylinder recordings tell story of culture across the centuries</h1>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana;font-size:12px"></span><p class="" style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana">Siobhan Heanue</p><p class="" style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(149,149,149);font-family:Arial,Verdana">
Updated <span class="">October 02, 2013 19:56:15 AUS</span></p><p style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana">Aboriginal singer-songwriting duo Stiff Gins were inspired to reprise the old technology when they heard a 100-year-old wax cylinder recording of a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman.For the first time in 80 years, a commercial music recording has been made on an Edison phonograph - technology that was invented in the 1890s.<br>
</p><p style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana">"When we heard it, it was not just of another time and place, that's simplifying it," said Stiff Gins singer Nardi Simpson.</p><p style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana">
"It was spiritual."</p><p style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana"><br></p><p style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana">Access full article below: </p><p style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana">
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