Re: Tons of cylinders

[Rolf]

Did some of you see the BBC series "Tipping the velvet"?
Then this must be familiar......
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1016&query=footsteps&num=1&start=1&sortBy=&sortOrder=id

Vesta Teilly
http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/images/objects/cropped2/700/sch200211130785-001.jpg
Seems to have been a model for the main character.

If you like the cylinders, also try:
http://www.tinfoil.com/
or
http://cylindersontheweb.angelcities.com/
or
http://cylinder.de/
or
http://wfmu.org/playlists/te

Rolf
http://homepages.ipact.nl/~otterhouse

[Lookingglass]

"Wayne Reimer" <wrdslremovethis濃pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1e91165bc...@news.sf.sbcglobal.net...
>I don't know if this extraordinary site from the Univ. of California at
> Santa Barbara has been mentioned here before, so I thought I'd mention
> it. There are over 6000 (!!!) cylinder recordings available for
> downloading (for free), with some nice chunks of classical stuff. It's
> not the easiest database to browse and isn't too intelligent about how
> to catalogue classical music, but if you know a name of an artist from
> the period that might be represented, you can always search on the
> name. If you are curious about performance from the early 20th century
> and the history of recordings from that era (or simply want to time
> trip to a very different era) this site should be catnip.
>
> http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/index.php
>
> Enjoy.
>
> wr

WONDERFUL...!!! Thank you for pointing this out for us.

dave
www.Shemakhan.com