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Emile Berliner and the birth of the recording industry Focuses on the work of Emile Berliner, a prominent inventor at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries who was responsible for the development of the microphone, flat recording disc, and gramophone player. Features correspondence, articles, lectures, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs, catalogs, clippings, experiment notes, motion picture components, and rare sound recordings |
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Fiddle tunes of the old frontier the Henry Reed collection, from the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress / Presents a multi-format ethnographic field collection of traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was over eighty years old, the tunes represent the music and evoke the history and spirit of Virginia's Appalachian frontier. Many of the tunes have passed back into circulation during the fiddling revival of the later twentieth century. This online collection incorporates 184 original sound recordings, 19 pages of fieldnotes, and 69 musical transcriptions with descriptive notes on tune histories and musical features; an illustrated essay about Reed's life, art, andinfluence; a list of related publications; and a glossary of musical terms |
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James Koetting Ghana Field Recording Collection |
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virtual gramophone Canadian historical sound recordings = Le gramophone virtuel : enregistrements historiques canadiens A growing multimedia website devoted to the early days of Canadian recorded sound. With a database of images and digital audio recordings, as well as biographies of musicians and histories of music and recorded sound in Canada, The Virtual Gramophone provides researchers and enthusiasts with a comprehensive look at the 78-rpm era in Canada |
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