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I would be interested but it looks like the deal has already expired.
Just listening to the accents, I knew it was my hometown of Pittsburgh. 🙂
This is something the Library of Congress should pursue. A collection like this is a history of the entire recording industry. To allow it to fall into disuse or be hidden from the world would be a true shame.
Someone should digitize that stuff… oh wait the RIAA wouldn’t like that.
#3 That was my 1st thought. I recently saw a program that highlighted the LoC attempt to restore & preserve old wax cylinder audio.
I agree with the Library of Congress comment or the Smithsonian. This cannot be lost.
Google are you listening. This is an opportunity for you to place some great music online.
#7, Tom,
Great idea. Probably tax deductible too.
#7, Google listens and hears everything. The question is will they do something about it…
Is it me, or has the quality level of video gone way up? This video looks fantastic. Hello YouTube! Why can’t your stuff look this good?
[That’s why people like HD so much! – ed.]
RESPECT
The Library of Congress is the only one who could take on a project like this.
I have watched as the fantastic Harrahs Automobile Museum was broken up and sold. Then they created the little collection that is now on display in Reno.
I’ve also seen the fantastic gun collection owned by the now defunct Harolds Club in Reno get broken up and sold.
Both times lost a totally irreplaceable collection of history and memorabilia. Makes me want to cry. Those collection break-ups should never have happened.
I wonder if a collection can be designated as a National Treasure?
I agree that some entity like the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum should step up and protect it.
I wish I had the cash to buy it.
#13 – Ah_Yea – The Library of Congress is the only one who could take on a project like this.
Nah, let the free market fix this. Worked out in the financial sector.
We need a music collection bailout!
(actually that’s one bailout I -would- support)
the dude it bad ass! a real shame…
The premise digital as a recording and reproduction platform is inherently inferior to vinyl is not accurate. Current ‘commercial’ production techniques are the real culprit. Combine low cost, compromised playback mechanisms with popular consumer ‘taste’ and the inevitable result is an aural spectrum compressed to the point it’s devoid of both full frequency and dynamic range. Bruce Springsteen’s last release is an example of excellent artistic and musical material mashed into an execrable mess.
I wonder if Paul Allen (of the EMP (http://www.empsfm.org/)) would be interested?
The current practice of “compression” of popular music on CD and MP3 formats is nearly criminal. Pick up a new CD or download one you bought 20 years ago and compare – it really is incredible the difference. I’m afraid convienence killed vinyl. Well, that, and the clicks and pops!
CD’s from the early stages and now are not different at all. I do not know what you are talking about #21. All CD for Consumer use is 16-Bit 44.1kHz. That is what they are recorded at, and that is what they play back at. If it were different, the new players couldn’t play the old CD’s. Ok, and they did come out with Super CD’s and NO ONE wanted them, they where about 64 times the Sample rate, and four times the bits. As close as pure analog sound as you can get, but I guess people didn’t want to pay the price. The Problem with digital is that you can compress, but not all digital music is “Horrible” sounding. The frequencies on regular CD’s are anywhere from below 20Hz (which is the lowest freq. a human can hear) and up to 22.05kHz. (20kHz is about the highest frequency a person can hear) That is if you had great hearing. Once they are compressed cuz you want 30,000 songs on a iPod, you don’t lose the frequency, but you lose the fluent data feed. That is why it sounds really bad.
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