Wax cylinder recordings tell story of culture across the centuries (fwd link)

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Wax cylinder recordings tell story of culture across the centuries

Siobhan Heanue

Updated October 02, 2013 19:56:15 AUS

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.

"When we heard it, it was not just of another time and place, that's
simplifying it," said Stiff Gins singer Nardi Simpson.

"It was spiritual."


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