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Re: [ARSCLIST] 5,000 cylinder recordings now online
This is terrific! Enjoying a National Promenade Band concert, right now!
Great job, thanks!
ps - 102 "Ballin' The Jack" sounds slow as molasses - I think it was
reproduced at the wrong rpm
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Seubert" <seubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 2:43 PM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] 5,000 cylinder recordings now online
The Special Collections Dept. at the University of California, Santa
Barbara is making a new online digital collection available featuring the
library's collection of cylinder recordings from the mid 1890s to the mid
1920s. The site is available at http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/.
During a two-year project funded in part by the Institute of Museum and
Library Services (IMLS) library staff have cataloged and digitized over
5,000 of the cylinder recordings in the library's collection. The
searchable site features downloadable audio files as well as streaming
versions of the recordings. Streaming and downloadable mp3 files have been
de-noised with CEDAR and are licensed for under a Creative Commons license
while a raw wave file is also available for the more adventurous and is
freely distributable. The site also has a growing collection of "streaming
radio" programs on various topics and a "featured cylinder" section,
showcasing some of the most interesting items in the collection.
The collection includes nearly all types of recordings made around the
turn of the 20th century including popular song, vaudeville, minstrelsy,
comedic monologues, classical and operatic, solo instrumental recordings,
bands, foreign and ethnic recordings, and speeches. More cylinders will
continue to be added to the collection as they are acquired, cataloged and
digitized.
Please enjoy, pass the word along, and let me know if you have any
comments or suggestions.
David
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David Seubert, Curator
Performing Arts Collection
Davidson Library
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010
Tel: 805-893-5444 Fax: 805-893-5749
seubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/pa/