Jules Verne Forum

<jvf@Gilead.org.il>

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 19961997199819992000200120022003200420052006200720082009

Re: Audio recording: update

From: Peter Harold <haroldmania~at~yahoo.se>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:14:52 +0200 (CEST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Yeees!
This was what I was waiting for since many years!
There are a lot of us who want to hear his voice!

Best regards
Peter

--- Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl> skrev:

> 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 - 11:15:01 IST

JV.Gilead.org.il
Copyright © Zvi Har’El
$Date: 2009/02/01 22:36:11 $$