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The Cylinder Preservation and Digitisation Project

Writers and musicians are accessing the Cylinder Preservation and Digitisation
Project at the University of California in Santa Barbara to listen to original recordings of 19th and early 20th century music.

For writers there is a rare opportunity to hear original speech patterns of times long since past .

The project placed its archive of antique recordings expecting them to be of interest mainly to academics.

However, more than a million files were downloaded over a six-month period.

It is possible to listen online to a live stream of early black artists and composers on streaming Cylinder Radio. In an effort to bring these recordings to a wider audience, they can be freely downloaded or streamed online, according to the site.

Cylinder recordings were the dominant musical medium until the 1920s. The catalogue now has more than 6,000 items.

Vaudeville and ragtime mingle with speeches by William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt, the actor Sarah Bernhardt and Ernest Shackleton.

The curators have produced an eight-hour best-of radio show, in addition to more
specific compilations of vaudeville, ragtime, opera and comic songs.

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