Amazing work! Congratulations! But, still I am thinking that will be great to create one page under ARSC wing and collect all these informations. Maybe Bill Klinger as a chair? For us will be great source because future project collecting informations about bohemian/czech cylinders. Best regards Filip sir st 15. 5. 2019 v 21:06 odesílatel Casey, Michael T <[log in to unmask]> napsal: > Here is a summary of cylinders at IU: > > Indiana University's Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative > completed digitization of 6,444 cylinders the week before last. Nearly all > of them were brown wax and were recorded in the field. The cylinders are > held by the Archives of Traditional Music in IU Libraries and contain > ethnographic material from all over the world. Dating from 1893, they were > recorded in 60 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. There > are many languages represented, particularly Native American. The > digitization project was funded by a grant from the National Endowment for > the Humanities. > > We have discovered a small number of additional cylinders on campus, > mostly commercial, and will digitize them in the next few weeks. > > There is a blog post on the playback machine we used at > > http://blogs.iu.edu/mdpi/2017/09/06/using-the-endpoint-audio-labs-cylinder-playback-machine/ > > and a video on YouTube > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-laVe0buWjc > > Mike > > ------------- > Mike Casey > Director of Technical Operations, Audio/Video > Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative > Indiana University > 812-855-8090 > > https://mdpi.iu.edu/ > > http://blogs.iu.edu/mdpi/ > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List < > [log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Eli Bildirici > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 11:28 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [External] Re: [ARSCLIST] Counts of Wax Cylinders in Collections > > This message was sent from a non-IU address. Please exercise caution when > clicking links or opening attachments from external sources. > ------- > > Talk to the IU contingent > > -------- Original Message -------- > From: Hugh Paterson III <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 01:50 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Counts of Wax Cylinders in Collections > > >Greetings, > >Thank you for the responses. They are most appreciated and extremely > >helpful. > >I was able to connect (via phone) with Bill Klinger the chair of ARSC > >Cylinder sub-committee. > >He was most helpful in helping me to clarify what I am looking for when > >I originally said "cylinder holdings". > > > >For those of you who are working with or have cylinders, I am more > >interested in ethnographically oriented content which usually would be > >classified as "field recordings" and are usually cut on relatively soft > >brown-wax cylinder blanks. This is in contrast to the the global body > >of mass-duplicated "commercial entertainment cylinder records" (molded > >using harder black wax or celluloid). > > > >My interests is in seeing which languages have old recordings from this > >era and what quantification of items there are in these languages. This > >is similar to my previous post on January 24th 2019 > >https://listserv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1901&L=ARSCLIST&P=R5124 > >about facilitating the exposure of these collection specifically for > >people looking for language content. > > > >Bill suggested to me based on his working knowledge of holdings that > >in specific libraries, archives, museums, and private collections > >(around the world), He thinks it is safe to cite the survival of at > >least 100,000 field recordings in the cylinder format, worldwide. > > > >As Adrian Monk would say: "100,000 its a nice round number...." > > > >- Hugh > > > >On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 3:30 AM Jennifer Vaughn > ><[log in to unmask]> > >wrote: > > > >> As of 2011, the Belfer had 19,750 cylinders; 11,971 were unique titles. > >> The numbers probably haven't significantly changed since then. > >> https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/b/belfer_cylinders.htm > >> Cheers, > >> Jennifer (formerly of Syracuse) > >> ________________________________ > >> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List < > >> [log in to unmask]> on behalf of Paul T. Jackson < > >> [log in to unmask]> > >> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 12:10 AM > >> To: [log in to unmask] > >> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Counts of Wax Cylinders in Collections > >> > >> Such would take quite a bit of research; asking, searching, and > >> compiling. A supplier of boxes might be interested, but I'm not sure > >> who else might find it useful to know. There are a number of cylinder > >> collections noted on the Internet; some with counts, some without. > >> Using the string "recording cylinder collections count" you will find > >> many collections. One would also have to conduct a search of the > >> categories of cylinders, e.g. Field recordings, oral history, et al. > >> > >> Paul Jackson > >> Trescott Research > >> Steilacoom, WA > >> > >> > >> On 5/13/2019 11:53 AM, Hugh Paterson III wrote: > >> > Greetings, > >> > > >> > Where can I get a count of the wax cylinders in various archives? > >> > > >> > I mean LOC is claimed by Press Releases to have the largest > >> > collection in the USA. But I can't find a count. > >> > ATM@UI claims just under 7000. But I don't see an exact number > >> > anywhere (but maybe I'm not looking in the right place?) > >> > > >> > University of California Berkeley’s Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of > >> Anthropology > >> > was part of the IRENE project but I don't see a full count. Someone > >> > says > >> > 148 but I suspect this might be scoped to a single Indigenous > language. > >> > > >> > In contrast to these numbers in the hundreds and low thousands, > >> > Tjeerd de Graaf in various publication cites number in the tens of > >> > thousands for the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv and an archive in St. > >> > Petersburg Russia, and for > >> Vienna. > >> > > >> > Any pointers? > >> > - Hugh Paterson III > >> > > >> > --- > >> > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > >> > https://www.avg.com > >> > > >> >