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A wax cylinder recording in progress
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Title:
A wax cylinder recording in progress
Year
2013
NFSA Senior Disc Preservationist, Gerry O'Neill, closely supervises the recording of Keith Potger's Guardian Angel, Guiding Light.
Recording on wax cylinder is a purely mechanical process, whereby the performer sings down a metal horn and the energy of that sound is concentrated onto a thin circular mica disc in the recorder head. The vibrations of the disc move a thin glass rod which cuts the spiral groove in the cylinder.
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