{"id":87,"date":"2009-04-02T05:41:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T12:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2009-04-02T05:45:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T12:45:17","slug":"wax-cylinder-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wax-cylinder-recordings\/","title":{"rendered":"Wax cylinder recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sdierdorf\/2404314661\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Columbia Records wax cylinder\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2041\/2404314661_d535c7065e_m.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph by Scott Dierdorf.\" width=\"159\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Scott Dierdorf.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/80505\/The-Belfer-collection-of-old-cylinder-records\">MetaFilter<\/a>.) Syracuse University has started <a href=\"http:\/\/library.syr.edu\/information\/belfer\/cylinders\/index.html\">digitizing its Belfer collection of cylinder recordings<\/a>. So far it has 293 online, but they&#8217;re hoping to get 6,000 recordings digitized by the end of the year. You can search the recordings by keyword or browse them by subject (e.g., &#8220;Elks (Fraternal Order)&#8221; and &#8220;Foot&#8217;s resolution, 1829&#8221;), and you can download the recordings as MP3s or WAV files.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite, hands down, is the 1910 anti-daylight savings song &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/digilib.syr.edu\/cdm4\/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=\/cylinder&amp;CISOPTR=106&amp;CISOBOX=1&amp;REC=1\">We Don&#8217;t Want More Daylight<\/a>.&#8221; My one tiny criticism is that I wish there was a straightforward list of all the recordings.<\/p>\n<p>Also see U.C. Santa Barbara&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cylinders.library.ucsb.edu\/\">Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project<\/a>. (To their great credit, <a href=\"http:\/\/library.syr.edu\/information\/belfer\/cylinders\/faq.html\">the two institutions are comparing notes<\/a> to ensure they don&#8217;t duplicate their online offerings.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Via MetaFilter.) Syracuse University has started digitizing its Belfer collection of cylinder recordings. So far it has 293 online, but they&#8217;re hoping to get 6,000 recordings digitized by the end of the year. You can search the recordings by keyword or browse them by subject (e.g., &#8220;Elks (Fraternal Order)&#8221; and &#8220;Foot&#8217;s resolution, 1829&#8221;), and you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[30,32,31],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-collections","tag-cool-catalogs","tag-music","tag-recordings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}