Tortilla Recording

Will, Don't think I've commented here before, but I've been following your blog for a while - lured over via Bluebird's. Enjoyable. Thanks for your work.

Regarding the tortilla record: Like anybody has a 78rpm turntable! Okay, well, I do, but I'm a geek; mine has USB out. (A Father's Day gift from the kids years ago. We actually have a huge stack of my parents' 78rpm platters I've been hoping to transcribe to digital. One. of. these.days.)

Wonder if that tortilla record stands up better (more plays) than the paper-thin discs produced in the latter days of LP's?

Speaking of unusual recording media, here's a fun fack: Earliest known audio recording is a French woman singing "Au Clair de la Lune", recorded in 1860 by means of smoke on a piece of paper. Wasn't decoded until computers came along. Amazing that it exists at all.

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