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"His Master's Voice"

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are pioneering a new way to recover 100-year-old recordings. Found on fragile wax cylinders and early lacquer records, the sounds reveal a rich acoustic heritage, including languages long lost.

Please visit the accompanying TV story on wax cylinder recovery on KQED QUEST.

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items are from between 01 Feb 2008 & 13 Feb 2008.

"His Master's Voice" by kqedquest
A rare beauty from the Library of Congress by kqedquest
An Edison wax cylinder by kqedquest
Wax cylinder player by kqedquest
The priceless dozen by kqedquest
Moldy wax cylinder by kqedquest
A rare wax cylinder recording of Ishi by kqedquest
IRENE, digital preservation tool extraordinaire by kqedquest
A novel use for 3D confocal microscopy by kqedquest
Meet IRENE by kqedquest
3D confocal microscopy put to work on a wax cylinder by kqedquest
IRENE scans a record by kqedquest
An output scan from IRENE by kqedquest
Carl Haber explains IRENE to Josh Rosen by kqedquest
Waxing Poetic, or rather, Vinyl by kqedquest
Berkeley's place for fresh grooves - Amoeba Music by kqedquest
Andrew Garrett inspects a wax cylinder by kqedquest
Check out the 100 year-old beat as the needle revolves it by kqedquest
Blake films the spinning of the wax cylinder by kqedquest

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