This is an interesting brief note/article on Peter Dilg and recording on Edison Cylinder Phonographs in yesterday's New York Times. I think this writer, Lawrence Downes, gets it when he ends with:
"And there is another pleasure, too. It's the warmth of the technology. There are surely downloadable versions of "True Blue Lou." But unlike the MP3, whose magic is incomprehensible and thus boring, the wax cylinder is viscerally miraculous. It's staggering to think that lungs and plucked strings could vibrate the air, wiggle a stylus and capture a song for 100 years on a fragile thing that looks like a toilet paper roll. Compared with the iPod, it's a lot more human, a lot more accessible, a lot easier to love. Once you've seen and heard it done, there's no going back." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/opinion/11sun3.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
