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A Jim Walsh article: October 28 1951
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You've become quite the archivist, Andy! "ArchivistAndy" is your new username. :lol:
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fran604g wrote: Thu May 19, 2022 10:03 am You've become quite the archivist, Andy! "ArchivistAndy" is your new username. :lol:
I chose my username 5 years ago because at the time the Amberola was my only cylinder machine at the time, and I was reading an Edison Monthly and saw this “Uncle Josh” type figure made up for the magazine Amberola Andy and I’m like “I’m Andy, I have an Amberola 30, why not call myself that? The thing is the 30 still remains my sole Amberola machine. From 2016 to present I have not found an Amberola machine in the wild that wasn’t a 30.
I do like the name ArchivistAndy.

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In the context of the early 50's Richmond Times-Dispatch, Jim Walsh mentions 40 years ago which would have been around 1911. Looking forty years back from 2022, that brings us to the year the CD was introduced. (I also listen to music on the earliest CD Player, a 1982-3 Philips CD-100 which I repaired and still use regularly).

The LPs and 45s to which Walsh refers were introduced in 1948-49 which is over 73 years ago. 73 years back from 1951 brings us to 1878 which was the invention of the phonograph!

Acoustic sound recording will become a tiny blip in the early history of the art. Electronic analog recording overall ended completely by the 1990's and the physical entity (disc or cylinder) itself has become obsolete with the technology of digital signal processing of audio and video, the digital files of which are stored in the cloud.

We must consider how fortunate we are to have lived through this rapid evolution of this technology. But at the same time we should reflect how the technology of recorded sound may have stifled musical composition and performance. That is the reason I like to listen back to these primordial recording artifacts.

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Governor Flyball wrote: Thu May 19, 2022 8:25 pm In the context of the early 50's Richmond Times-Dispatch, Jim Walsh mentions 40 years ago which would have been around 1911. Looking forty years back from 2022, that brings us to the year the CD was introduced. (I also listen to music on the earliest CD Player, a 1982-3 Philips CD-100 which I repaired and still use regularly).

The LPs and 45s to which Walsh refers were introduced in 1948-49 which is over 73 years ago. 73 years back from 1951 brings us to 1878 which was the invention of the phonograph!

Acoustic sound recording will become a tiny blip in the early history of the art. Electronic analog recording overall ended completely by the 1990's and the physical entity (disc or cylinder) itself has become obsolete with the technology of digital signal processing of audio and video, the digital files of which are stored in the cloud.

We must consider how fortunate we are to have lived through this rapid evolution of this technology. But at the same time we should reflect how the technology of recorded sound may have stifled musical composition and performance. That is the reason I like to listen back to these primordial recording artifacts.
I hope all the stuff I posted before February 2021 shows back up.

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Story about antique Music boxes and phonos: August 21, 1971
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Recording of Edison found: February 18, 1996
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Ohio Collector: February 5. 1992
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Article about a W-250 Diamond disc machine
August 21, 2004
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Article about a Amberola 75: April 11, 2004
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