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Postby Speakeasy » Sat Jul 15, 2017 12:36 pm

There's an app for that!
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Re: Cortina Resuscitated

Postby Ingaræð » Sat Jul 15, 2017 12:46 pm

That's awesome! :D Do you know which language it's for?
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Re: Cortina Archives

Postby Speakeasy » Sat Jul 15, 2017 1:17 pm

Ingaræð wrote: ... Do you know which language it's for?
Apparently, this is a cylinder from the original Cortina German course. I stumbled upon it on eBay: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/EARLY-CORTINA-CYLINDER-LANGUAGE-PHONOGRAPH-RECORD-BOX-German-No-21-/152606658395?hash=item238810cf5b:g:cF0AAOSw-K9ZGfIm

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Re: Cortina Archives

Postby zenmonkey » Sat Jul 15, 2017 1:32 pm

That is cool!

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Re: Cortina Archives

Postby n_j_f » Sun Jul 16, 2017 7:23 am

Speakeasy wrote:There's an app for that!


I'm very old school, but even I wouldn't know how to play a cyclinder. :lol:
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Re: Cortina Archives

Postby Cainntear » Sun Jul 16, 2017 1:47 pm

n_j_f wrote:
Speakeasy wrote:There's an app for that!


I'm very old school, but even I wouldn't know how to play a cyclinder. :lol:

Most cylinders are now in such terrible condition that your best option is to scan them with a laser, as they might just disintegrate if you put a needle on them...
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Re: Cortina Archives

Postby Iversen » Sun Jul 16, 2017 3:01 pm

One good reason to do that is that there may be old dialects represented which have been 'softened' nowadays. The same applies to other pioneer recording systems, like metalthreads, 78 rpm disks or ... well, let's just admit it: tape. Especially the old big rolls of brown tape which you had to place manually on the corresponding gadget. Lots of ethnographical investigations is only preserved on such quaint old media.
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