MAZA - Barcarolle Gramophone Recording

[Max Magee]

I was curious to hear if there were any recordings of a similar vintage (I've seen between 1900 and 1905 as the timeframe for today's story. The only ones I could find online so far is these, I believe the first is the popular 1907 Barcarolle from "The Tales of Hoffman."

As you can tell, this isn't a solo violin, and likely, the recording in the story would've been Holmes' own self-made edition. Imagine if this is the highest quality recording one could achieve in a large studio production, how bad the sound quality of the home-made article would've been...

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Here's a digitized version from The Internet Archive, retrieved and archived using the latest four-stylus recording technology—a saxomophone duet version. This was from a 1922 recording (presumably with a couple decades more of technological advances—you can hear quite a bit more nuance and tonality, but still not great quality!)
https://archive.org/details/78_barcarolle_offenbach_gbia3030629a

For reference, here is one that was recorded with modern audio equipment and playback:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_BGgNc6F9A

Max

Max "Magic Jezail Bullet" Magee (he/him)

Notorious Canary-Trainer of Madison Wisconsin

Torist International S.S. of Chicago Illinois

Norwegian Explorer of Minnesota
Yeoman Purser of the Barque of the Lone Star & Cap'n Basil's Mignonettes

Praed Street Irregulars, Agent Tobias Athelney

Etc.