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Wax Cylinders Hold Audio From a Century Ago. The Library Is Listening.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts acquired a machine that transfers recordings from the fragile format. Then a batch of cylinders from a Met Opera librarian arrived.

Jeremy Gordon
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Diaries, Libraries and Librarians, Lionel Mapleson, Metropolitan Opera, Music, New York Public Library, Opera
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