Christopher Pidcock, a cellist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, played Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Bach, and we recorded it on wax cylinder – just the way it would have been done in the 19th century.

At the National Film and Sound Archive, part of our mission is to preserve audiovisual technol

At the National Film and Sound Archive, part of our mission is to preserve audiovisual technol

In this recording, Fanny Smith talks about being the last of the Tasmanians. She then sings in both English and her own language.

There are relatively few surviving brown wax cylinders recorded in Australia prior to 1903, which made the donation of one to the NFSA a very exciting prospect for Sound Curator Tamara Osicka.