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Steve Puntolillo wrote: > I'm sure my client would be thrilled to find out he can listen to > transfers of recordings that he does or does not have. He won't play the > cylinders himself. > > This is not a commercial interest for him. Ciccolini was his > grandfather. Pursuing this is not really business-related for me either. > My business is high-quality analog-to-digital transfers of multitrack > tapes. Once I understand the options, I will direct him to the > appropriate facility where they specialize in this type of transfer. I > thought this list would be a good place to gather info for him. I have > not been disappointed! I had provided Steve with a bit of information on Ciccolini from K&R, a standard reference (Grosses Saengerlexikon). A bit more: 1885-1963, debut in 1907, modest career until one season 1918-19 in Chicago but nominally continued until retirement in 1930. A friend of Rudolph Valentino, Ciccolini sang at his funeral in 1926 - probably his greatest claim to fame. Given those dates, I hope to find him in the logs, then on the recordings of the Diamond Discs. That won't be easy since the logs are extensive and handwritten, though I've a good photocopy. I have checked for his 1908-09 HMV recordings without success. K&R reports both cylinders and discs for Edison, but I have no cylinder source material handy. An invaluable reference is Chris Zwarg's discography at http://www.truesoundtransfers.de/disco.htm Mike -- [log in to unmask] http://www.mrichter.com/