Tony, I wouldn't want to imagine what a wax-cylinder drive would look like. Talk about legacy equipment! I doubt that it would fit in the extra drive bay on a PC. And anyway, the memory capacity just wouldn't compare with a CD or even a Zip drive.
Seriously though, there are companies (almost on the cottage industry level) that produce CDs from wax cylinders. I've dealt with a guy that markets a collection of American popular music from about 1900 through the 1920s that he's transfered from wax cylinders. I've added the music to museum audio presentations and kiosks. If there are early recordings available on wax cylinder, you can probably have them transferred. Tim Motz > > >---- Original Message ---- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: early recordings >Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:40:26 +0100 > >><snip> >>"the instruments' acoustics were simply not pretty either, gut >strings were >>thuddy, take early >>tango recordings for an example." >> >>This might have been the point of the question. BTW, I'm eagerly >awaiting >>for a wax cylinder reader for PC to come on the market. USB or PCI, >it >>doesn't matter. >> >>Tony >>> RT >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>> >>> >> >> >>
