I haven't listened to all of them yet but some are in better shape or
better recorded, or less worn. The Chopin Concerto is almost invisible
at times. Others have much more forward sound.
joe salerno
On 1/30/2012 8:01 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
> I can't hear much audio above all the noise. Are there versions cleaned
> up with some DSP or analog processing? Or some high-resolution WAV we
> can download and process ourselves?
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Lindner" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 8:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Early European Edison Phonograph Recordings
> Released
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> Appears in the NY Times
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/science/bismarcks-voice-among-restored-edison-recordings.html?_r=1&ref=world
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> On Jan 30, 2012, at 8:30 PM, Steven Smolian wrote:
>
>> Hi, Jerry,
>>
>> I can't get the link to work. I'm trying to viewthe notes.
>>
>> Steve Smolian
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gerald Fabris
>> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 8:21 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Early European Edison Phonograph Recordings Released
>>
>>
>> Thomas Edison NHP News Release
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>> For Release: Monday January 30, 2012
>> Contact: Jerry Fabris
>> Phone: 973-736-0550 x48
>>
>>
>> Early European Edison Phonograph Recordings Released
>>
>>
>>
>> WEST ORANGE, NJ – Today the National Park Service announces the
>> first-time release of 12
>>
>>
>> historic sound recordings made by Thomas Edison’s recording engineer Theo
>> Wangemann on
>>
>>
>> wax cylinders during 1889-1890 in Germany, Austria, Prussia, and France.
>> The recordings
>>
>>
>> include the voices of eminent German historical figures Otto von Bismarck
>> and Helmuth
>>
>>
>> von Moltke, and several performances by important musicians of the
>> period. The sounds
>>
>>
>> are available on-line in MP3-format at:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.nps.gov/edis/photosmultimedia/theo-wangemann-1889-1890-european-r
>>
>> ecordings.ht
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>>
>> m.
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>>
>> On Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 12:00 noon, historian Patrick Feaster,
>> will present a
>>
>>
>> one-hour program about the recordings, titled Theo Wangemann: The Man Who
>> Made the
>>
>>
>> Phonograph Musical. This presentation will explore the life and career of
>> Theo
>>
>>
>> Wangemann, who was arguably the world’s first professional recording
>> engineer. Also at
>>
>>
>> the program, collector Stuart H. Miller, M.D. will exhibit the phonograph
>> used by
>>
>>
>> Wangemann in Europe during 1889-1890. The program will be held in the
>> Laboratory Complex
>>
>>
>> at Thomas Edison National Historical Park, 211 Main Street. The entrance
>> fee to the park
>>
>>
>> is $7.00, children under 16 are free. Seating is limited and
>> reservations are required.
>>
>>
>> Reservations can be made by calling 973-736-0550, ext. 89.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Museum Curators first cataloged the damaged wooden box containing the wax
>> cylinders in
>> 1957, found in the library of the Edison Laboratory. In 2005, the
>> National Park Service
>> completed a multi-year project to individually catalog every historic
>> sound recording in
>> the museum collection. Curators noted that the box contained 17 brown wax
>> cylinders in
>> fair and poor condition, several broken with large pieces missing. No
>> title list or
>> other identification survived in the box with the recordings, so the
>> recordings could
>> not be identified until they were heard. In 2011, the park's Curator of
>> Sound
>> Recordings digitized 12 of Wangemann's 17 cylinders using a French-made
>> Archeophone
>> cylinder playback machine, saving the audio as Broadcast Wave Format
>> files. (Five of the
>> cylinders could not be digitized due to their condition.) Once the audio
>> could be
>> heard, historians Stephan Puille and Patrick Feaster identified the
>> sounds and wrote two
>> scholarly essays, which are included with the recordings on the Thomas
>> Edison National
>> Historical Park website.
>>
>>
>>
>> Entrusted by Thomas Edison with the task of applying the newly developed
>> wax cylinder
>> phonograph to music, Theo Wangemann oversaw the first regular production
>> of pre-recorded
>> cylinders at the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey in 1888-89,
>> ushering in
>> the beginnings of the American musical recording industry. Then, in
>> 1889-90, Wangemann
>> played a prominent role in introducing Edison’s invention to continental
>> Europe.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> Stephan Puille is a conservator of archaeological finds and technical
>> employee at the
>> Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (HTW Berlin) - University of
>> Applied
>> Sciences. For more than ten years he studies the history of sound
>> recording from the
>> beginning up to 1914, holds lectures and writes articles on the subject.
>> In addition, he
>> is a phonograph and phonogram collector who concentrates on early and
>> historically
>> significant items. Contact: Stephan Puille, Hochschule für Technik und
>> Wirtschaft
>> Berlin, Wilhelminenhofstraße 75A, 12459 Berlin, Germany. E-mail:
>>
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>
>> Patrick Feaster ([log in to unmask], 812-331-0047) is a researcher and
>> educator
>> specializing in the history and culture of sound media. A co-founder of
>> FirstSounds.org
>> and two-time Grammy nominee, he received his doctorate in Folklore and
>> Ethnomusicology
>> in 2007 from Indiana University Bloomington, where he is currently a
>> lecturer in the
>> Department of Communication and Culture, a member of the Media
>> Preservation Initiative,
>> and an instructor for the School of Continuing Studies.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thomas Edison National Historical Park is a National Park Service site
>> dedicated to
>> promoting an international understanding and appreciation of the life and
>> extraordinary
>> achievements of Thomas Alva Edison by preserving, protecting, and
>> interpreting the
>> Park’s extensive historic artifact and archive collections at the Edison
>> Laboratory
>> Complex and Glenmont, the Edison family estate. The Visitor Center is
>> located at 211
>> Main Street in West Orange, New Jersey. The Laboratory Complex is open
>> Wednesday
>> through Sunday from 9:00am to 5:00pm. For more information or directions
>> please call
>> 973-736-0550 ext. 11 or visit our website at www.nps.gov/edis .
>>
>>
>>
>> -NPS-
>>
>>
>>
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Joe Salerno
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