Re: [ARSCLIST] Birgit Nilsson records a cylinder

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

Paul Charosh wrote:
> In a message dated 5/11/07 5:48:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mrichter@xxxxxxx 
> writes:
>
> > To support a response to an article in a sort of e-zine, I have reposted at
> >   http://www.operas-are.us/
> > a page of my WWW site of some years ago. In 1966, the great dramatic 
> > soprano Birgit Nilsson recorded a portion of an aria on an Edison 
> > cylinder machine of about 1895; 
>
> It's a bit later than that.  It's an ordinary Edison two-minute Home (ca. 
> 1903? I don't know much about machines) with a four-minute attachment.  It takes 
> a model "C" reproducer for two-minute cylinders and an "H" (I think) for 
> four-minute cylindners.
>
> Paul Charosh

Thanks for that; I'll correct the page to something like "the early 1900s."

Mike
--
mrichter@xxxxxxx
http://www.mrichter.com/