I know Neil Gladd <http://www.neilgladd.com/> is preparing a couple such projects from early mandolin recordings (i.e., not recordings of early mandolin) for Belmando Records <http://www.belmando.com/>. He's done such stuff before and shared images of the work in progress. I can't recall if he'd posted the images at his site somewhere or sent them by e-mail. In any event, Yes, transfer from wax is done on occasion.
Best, Eugene At 12:12 PM 11/24/2004, timothy motz wrote: >Tony, >I wouldn't want to imagine what a wax-cylinder drive would look like. >Talk about legacy equipment! I doubt that it would fit in the extra >drive bay on a PC. And anyway, the memory capacity just wouldn't >compare with a CD or even a Zip drive. > >Seriously though, there are companies (almost on the cottage industry >level) that produce CDs from wax cylinders. I've dealt with a guy >that markets a collection of American popular music from about 1900 >through the 1920s that he's transfered from wax cylinders. I've >added the music to museum audio presentations and kiosks. If there >are early recordings available on wax cylinder, you can probably have >them transferred. > >Tim Motz To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
