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Audio recording: update

From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:55:14 +0200 (CEST)
To: jvg yahoogroup <jvg~at~yahoogroups.com>, Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Dear all,

I have received many reactions to my message about the audio recording of
the interview with Jules Verne. I'm sorry that I don't have time to reply
to each of you individually right now (I'm in the middle of a renovation).

Some fair points have been made by various people: don't mess around with
the cylinders yourself, as they are very fragile; keep them safe, because
you never know what some people may do when they hear about this; and keep
it quiet for the moment. These are things I hadn't considered in my
enthusiasm.

I have made a couple of phonecalls, and it turns out there's a museum that
maintains an archive of old recordings, and also has a lot of experience
with digitizing vinyl records, wax cylinders, etc. Rina Appel and I have
been invited to come to the museum on Friday, so that's what we'll do,
rather than working on the cylinders ourselves. The technician I talked
with couldn't promise that the entire interview could be transferred in
one evening, but most probably we will be able to make a short sample,
which I'll post as promised.

Once the operation is underway, we'll see how we go about going public
with it. For the time being, the cylinders will be stored in a safe at a
bank.

Cheers,
Garmt.
Received on Thu 30 Mar 2006 - 09:55:22 IST

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