My early recording!

Way back in about 1965 a friend, Francis Wood, and I made a record. As I recall it was me saying, "Mary had a little lamb". Very profound!  We used the lid of an old coffee jar, a big horn and a needle. It involved shouting very loudly!

Whilst looking for something else, I came across it earlier today. Of course, these days I have nothing to play it as all my record decks went long ago. My son has a deck, so I could ask him sometime.

It was with Francis that we made some early experiments with optical communications. OC171s with paint scraped off. Memories.

Building a wax cylinder player

A band called The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing is putting one track of their next album on a wax cylinder available from 1 June. Don't ask me why! This is about an attempt to make a wax cylinder player to play the new record when it becomes available, the first commercially produced cylinder in 100 years.

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10171206.stm