Alec Wilkinson: How a Physicist Resurrected the Earliest Recordings : The
New Yorker
In early 2000, south of Oakland, California, a physicist stuck in traffic
was listening to the radio. He heard Mickey Hart, a drummer for the
Grateful Dead, say that the archives of the world’s aboriginal musics were
deteriorating and needed attention. The bulk of the archives had been
assembled between 1890 and 1940 by ethnographers using antique devices that
recorded mainly on wax cylinders and aluminum disks. Many of the recordings
had not been played for a number of years and had grown so fragile that the
pressure of a stylus might destroy them.


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