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« on: March 30, 2008, 04:49:04 PM »

An "ethereal" 10 second clip of a woman singing a French folk song has been played for the first time in 150 years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7318180.stm

The recording of "Au Clair de la Lune", recorded in 1860, is thought to be the oldest known recorded human voice.
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« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2008, 09:39:56 AM »
 :cry2:Well I guess that makes my transfers from 1901 recordings fade to nothing!
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« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2008, 12:57:17 PM »
Quote from: wirecutter on March 31, 2008, 09:39:56 AM
:cry2:Well I guess that makes my transfers from 1901 recordings fade to nothing!
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Hi wirecutter , wellcome to the forum ,  would you like to expand on the 1901 recordings , it sounds very interesting , 
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« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2008, 01:24:53 PM »
Hi Roco & all
One of my customers had a collection (from his father) of very early shellac and Vulcanite / Ali records for transfer to CD It was an interesting project as none of the discs ran at 78 RPM and the only way to tell on most was to detect the hum  50 & 60 Hz and reference to it.
 Some of the bonding had split but most of the recordings came up spectacularly. As usual I put the 'Raw' copies on the end of the set of corrected recordings, still all in a days job!  Have fun
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« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2008, 02:05:57 PM »
Thanks for the info , personaly I have no knowledge of sound recording , but I am truly impressed with that ,if that was all in a days work ? you have a great job , and skills to match , IMHO,
my main interest is in early photography , (1826 ) but only for the historical info , but pictures can be posed and often were ,
but sound bytes , only go back 150 years ,  we can only make a best guess  at the  spoken word of those times ,
BTW, I can just remember the 78 rpm , Embarassed
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« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2008, 06:39:45 PM »
Hi Roco
I have been involved with film and audio since I started work, now days, I spend most of my time recovering Old format video and audio recordings and from films from 8, 9, 16, 27,35 mm with the odd large format neg for spice!
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« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2008, 09:06:13 PM »
Sounds interesting but how accurate do you think it is?? (Probably not very)
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