On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Steven Smolian wrote: > When it first came out, I checked about 10 items. 3 or 4 were wrong. It's > not trustworthy. > > > While I haven't checked yet for the information requested...one good > > source for "firsts" in recordings is a favorite book of mine, (don't know > > if > > all of the information is accurate) "The Guinness Book of Recorded Sound." > > by Robert and Celia Dearling with Brian Rust ISBN 0-85112-274-4 Well, it is still fun reading...and has some great pictures. As for the errors...actually that isn't a bad error rate. I am reminded of one of my seminars in graduate school where each one in the class was given a range of entries in the Harvard Dictionary of Music. Our assignment was to look for errors... So, why don't we put together an online encyclopedia of recorded sound and/or corrections to published volumes on the subject. Karl (still working on his article on cataloging)