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| From Mickey Hart's Summer getaway trip diary-6/29/03-Vernon Downs Raceway-Vernon, NY.....This is a giant racetrack with stables and horses lining the way in. moe. is playing as I arrive. They are a nice band with a wild streak a mile long. Their line up is one trap drummer, one percussionist, and three guitars. I like 'em........ |
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| ...Tonight we have another first. Shawn Borri, a wax cylinder enthusiast is backstage with his Model A Triumph Edison , circa 1902-1903 recording machine. (Phonograph)....... |
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| ...He is one of two people in the world that actually makes his own wax cylinders, and wants to record us tonight. What an opportunity! The problems are vast. Firstly, he can only record 21/2 minutes on each cylinder. Secondly he has only 1 machine, so he must stop to change cylinders every 21/2 minutes. He is very knowledgeable about the old machines and is a wellspring of information. He monitors the recordings like a surgeon, where every turning of the wax requires immediate care. The wax shavings fly off the cylinder as the recording is made... |
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| ....He carefully monitors the needle etching into the wax to make sure it does not skip. In modern recording you cannot see the sound being imprinted on the medium, whether it be magnets moving iron oxide on magnetic tape or numbers in binary code, the digital domain. It's fascinating to see the wax shavings as the needle imprints the wax with vibration. Shawn has to blow the shavings off the cylinder to make sure it does not skip.... |
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| ...There is a transmutation of energy here. The vibration of air excites the sapphire, etching the wax, then turns these indentations into the sound. The ear hears and perceives this sound as music. An invisible vibration of air, which engraves the wax which is then played back and transferred into audible sound... |
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| ...Wiz, our house mixer will host him at the soundboard. I hope the overall volume of the band does not over power the delicate sapphire stylus of the machine.... |
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| ...I have been after the whereabouts of the Edison treadle that jesse Fewkes used that fateful day in March 1890. Shawn thinks he might be able to track it. All my inquiries have dead-ended and the search begins anew... |
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| ...What a sight, these guys are lugging this Edison cutter around with its enormous horn and all those delicate cylinders made of wax... |
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| ...It is a reminder how difficult it must have been for the old songcatchers to record under all the weird conditions that are encountered in the field. This is my book come to life. He is a modern version of the old recordist explorers..."-Mickey Hart, percussionist for The Grateful Dead |
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| DRUMS:"THE RHYTHM DEVILS",BILL KREUTZMANN & MICKEY HART |
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| THOMAS EDISON ON THE OCCASION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PHONOGRAPH |
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| PLAYED BY THE LOUGHLIN BROS.(JIM LOUGHLIN-moe. & MIKE LOUGHLIN-mike rocklin. RECORDED AT EDISON STREET STUDIOS, LA MOILLE, ILLINOIS. JULY 6, 2002 BY SHAWN BORRI ON A BORRI CYLINDER USING AN EDISON TRIUMPH PHONOGRAPH |
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| EDWARD MEEKER-EDISON RECORDS-1908 |
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| AN 1892 CYLINDER ABOUT PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND AND HIS MISTRESS FRANCIS FOLSOM AND SOME OTHER JOKES |
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| RECORDED IN 1895 BY FRANCIS LA FLESCHE AND ALICE FLETCHER- TRACKS INLUDE, DEATH SONG COMPOSED BY KA-HI-GI-UN, FUNERAL SOND, HE'DEWACHI CALL, HE'DEWACHI DANCE SONG, HE'DEWACHI DANCE SONG, HE'DEWACHI DANCE SONG, HE'DEWACHI PRAYER SUNG AS TWO BEARERS HOLD UP THE SACRED PIPES, HETHU'SHKA SOCIETY SONG, HETHU'SHKA SOCIETY SONG, HETHU'SHKA SOCIETY SONG, HETHUSHKA SOCIETY SONG, HETHU'SHKA SOCIETY SONG, HETHU'SHKA SOCIETY SONG, HETHU'SHKA SOCIETY SONG, HETHU'SHKA SOCIETY SONG, HETHU'SHKA SOCIETY SONG, HETHU'SHKA SOCIETY SONG, HETHU'SHKA SOCIETY SONG, HETHUSHKA SOCIETY SONG, HO*'HEWWACHI SONG, HO*'HEWACHI SONG, HO*'HEWACHI SONG, HO*'HEWACHI SONG |
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