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      • [Brown wax home recording of eighty-nine-year-old woman speaking over recording of accordion music, and a vocal duet].

[Brown wax home recording of eighty-nine-year-old woman speaking over recording of accordion music, and a vocal duet].

Cylinder13203

Place of Publication:
[Place of production unknown],
Issued Date:
1900
Genres:
Personal recordings
Notes:

Performers names not given or decipherable.

Brown wax cylinder.

The David Giovannoni Collection of home cylinder recordings (Set Number: 304-06, Originally acquired: The Musical Wonder House Collection, 2011).

Place of recording likely the United States.

Description:

Woman speaks over palimpsest recording of accordion music: "Nineteen hundred and [... (?). Annie Burr (?)], eighty-nine years old the third day of November." Spoken content is the same as 304-7. Second half of recording contains a vocal duet and a recitation of the Lord's Prayer.

Physical Description:
1 cylinder (ca. 2 min.) : 160.0 rpm ; 2 1/4 x 4 in.
Format:
Audio musical
Collection(s):
Cylinder Audio Archive
Library Location:
Department of Special Research Collections
ARK:
ark:/48907/f37h1j1k
Catalog System Number:
990041104240203776
Copyright Holder:
University of California (System). Regents
Restrictions:

MP3 files of the restored cylinders available for download are copyrighted by the Regents of the University of California. They are licensed for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License. Acknowledgments for reuse of the transfers should read "University of California, Santa Barbara Library." The original wav files (either unedited or restored) can be provided upon request for commercial or non-commercial use such as CD reissues, film/tv synchronization, use on websites or in exhibits. The University of California makes no claims or warranties as to the copyright status of the original recordings and charges a use fee for the use of the transfers. Please contact the University of California, Santa Barbara Library Department of Special Research Collections for information on licensing cylinder transfers.