tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post3731092874488901188..comments2024-03-27T23:06:03.736-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: Ancient AcousticsBryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-1174847692148615242016-02-23T21:58:04.355-06:002016-02-23T21:58:04.355-06:00Yes, it was E. Power Biggs and a brass ensemble wh...Yes, it was E. Power Biggs and a brass ensemble whose name I forget. Nowadays I imagine that no record company would be willing to accept the expenses of doing a recording like that--on location in Venice.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-42622465371406157162016-02-23T12:49:49.266-06:002016-02-23T12:49:49.266-06:00Nor had I; very clever. I had what am pretty sure ...Nor had I; very clever. I had what am pretty sure is that same Gabrieli recording-- all I can remember of it is the name E. Power Biggs, who was a famous organist forty years ago. Age, age....Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-50621939143159447012016-02-22T06:55:10.995-06:002016-02-22T06:55:10.995-06:00Wow, I had never heard of the phonautograph!Wow, I had never heard of the phonautograph!Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-80368059648756557152016-02-21T20:17:35.033-06:002016-02-21T20:17:35.033-06:00Reminds me of the phonautograph, which was never m...Reminds me of the phonautograph, which was never meant to play back sounds (but, rather, to train sound stenographers), but which now can. And so we have the oldest recording of a voice from 1860!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com