Recording Mountain Chief 1916 Edison School Opera

[Andersun]

Folks,
Don't know if you seen this.....

http://www.retronaut.co/2012/07/recordi ... hief-1916/

Steve

[edisonphonoworks]

This photo is always an inspiration to me. I with Pablo Helguera, I recorded Chief Jones Mari Smith on wax cylinder, and she was the last person to speak Eyak. Dead Languages Conservatory is a collection of almost extinct music and dialect from Mexico, Central and South America, as well as Native American stories and songs. Many of you think I have not made many cylinders, or have made up the number, this project alone, which is a small number of blanks and recordings I have made is over 300 cylinders! just this one project, and some I actually had to make on location, I molded blanks on location at the old Armory in San Juan!


http://pablohelguera.net/2004/02/dead-l ... servatory/ Is the collection as it was back in 2004, and it has been added to quite a bit since then.