If you can't tell by the _sound_ when he plays it back...

In article writes:

two weeks ago I met a fellow that was recording the Dead on wax cylinders,

Well, dead people are pretty quiet, and wax cylinders don't have a lot
of dynamic range, so I guess it's a good match.

what is with this, he showed me his rig but I had no way of know if it was
real
it was playing a wax cylinder

Sounds real enough to me.

any info on the guy or the results I would be intrested in hearing

Well, you met the guy and heard the results. What do you have to say?

Retro is in these days, and there are indeed a couple of people going
around making recordings on cylinders. It makes a nice souvenier, and
maybe some day the Library of Congress will discover it and think
you're some old folk singer.

A friend of mine was working on a research project at the Library of
Congress 25 or so years ago, and he ran into someone who had an Edison
cylinder dictating machine that still worked. He recorded an obscure
New England version of a British ballad on it, got it good and dirty
looking, planted it behind a file cabinet at the Library, and then a
few weeks later, pulled it out and said gleefully "Hey, look at what I
found behind the cabinet!" They took it down to the recording lab and
played it, and nobody recognized that it was him singing. It was that
bad.



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A friend of mine was working on a research project at the Library of
Congress 25 or so years ago, and he ran into someone who had an Edison
cylinder dictating machine that still worked. He recorded an obscure
New England version of a British ballad on it, got it good and dirty
looking, planted it behind a file cabinet at the Library, and then a
few weeks later, pulled it out and said gleefully "Hey, look at what I
found behind the cabinet!" They took it down to the recording lab and
played it, and nobody recognized that it was him singing. It was that
bad.



was your friend Willie Nelson? I may have seen that movie.

Denny Conn wrote:

George Gleason wrote:

two weeks ago I met a fellow that was recording the Dead on wax cylinders,
what is with this,

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Why, that's just how Thomas Edison did it! History repeats itself...


Thomas Edison recorded "The Dead"? No ****.
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kHolmes wrote:

Hey, did you guys know that Thomas Edison also invented sex for fun?
What a guy!

Not true! TEENAGERS invented sex (in spite of all evidence to
the contrary such as the existence of their parents).

Benj

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A friend of mine was working on a research project at the Library of
Congress 25 or so years ago, and he ran into someone who had an Edison
cylinder dictating machine that still worked. He recorded an obscure
New England version of a British ballad on it, got it good and dirty
looking, planted it behind a file cabinet at the Library, and then a
few weeks later, pulled it out and said gleefully "Hey, look at what I
found behind the cabinet!" They took it down to the recording lab and
played it, and nobody recognized that it was him singing. It was that
bad.

Let me guess - Joe Hickerson?

Peace,
Paul