Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rarest records

2014-08-05 Thread David Gerard
On 5 August 2014 10:55, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 4 August 2014 19:24, David Gerard wrote: >> I've wanted one of these for years: http://www.elpj.com/ > How much? Maybe we should put in a grant application. Tens of thousands of dollars and a waiting list ... and I don't know anyone who actuall

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rarest records

2014-08-05 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 4 August 2014 19:24, David Gerard wrote: > > I've wanted one of these for years: http://www.elpj.com/ How much? Maybe we should put in a grant application. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, gu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rarest records

2014-08-04 Thread David Gerard
On 4 August 2014 19:07, geni wrote: > Eh there used to be fairground/seaside booths where you could cut your own > record. One the plus side this stuff should last longer than say floppy > discs. I've wanted one of these for years: http://www.elpj.com/ OTOH, even the Internet Archive doesn't b

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rarest records

2014-08-04 Thread geni
On 4 August 2014 15:53, David Gerard wrote: > On 4 August 2014 15:11, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > > but the thesis that some 78rpm records constitute the only surviving > > example of a particular recording, with no master in an archive > > somewhere, sent chills up my spine. > > > This is surprisin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rarest records

2014-08-04 Thread Emilio J . Rodríguez-Posada
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwXayHbUQ2o https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record-Rama 2014-08-04 16:11 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett : > This is a good read in its own right: > > > http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/07/amanda_petrusich_s_do_not_sell_at_any_price_reviewed_by_sarah_o_

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rarest records

2014-08-04 Thread David Gerard
On 4 August 2014 15:11, Andy Mabbett wrote: > but the thesis that some 78rpm records constitute the only surviving > example of a particular recording, with no master in an archive > somewhere, sent chills up my spine. This is surprisingly common with indie records. Frequently, a few hundred pi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rarest records

2014-08-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
I wasn't. That's going to kill my productivity for the rest of the day ;-) Thank you. On 4 August 2014 15:18, Magnus Manske wrote: > You're familiar with this, I take it: > > http://radio.publicdomainproject.org/ > > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Andy Mabbett > wrote: > >> This is a good re

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rarest records

2014-08-04 Thread Jesse de Vos
Thanks, great article. At Sound and Vision in the Netherlands we recently digitized nearly 10.000 (mainly Dutch) 78 rpm records. Unfortunately researching whether this material is PD or not is an enormous effort. By the looks of it only a very small part of it will be PD in the US. Once the researc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rarest records

2014-08-04 Thread Magnus Manske
You're familiar with this, I take it: http://radio.publicdomainproject.org/ On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > This is a good read in its own right: > > > http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/07/amanda_petrusich_s_do_not_sell_at_any_price_reviewed_by_sarah_o_holla.h

[Wikimedia-l] Rarest records

2014-08-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
This is a good read in its own right: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/07/amanda_petrusich_s_do_not_sell_at_any_price_reviewed_by_sarah_o_holla.html but the thesis that some 78rpm records constitute the only surviving example of a particular recording, with no master in an archiv