Re: [ARSCLIST] Pre-wax tinfoils

[Jack Raymond <jraymond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Will Prentice wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of any pre-wax (or at least "very old") tinfoil
> recordings which have survived? We have one at the British Library which
> is assumed to be circa. the dawn of recorded time, and I presume there
> are others out there? All leads appreciated.

I have a  small piece of tinfoil that was "printed" at a demonstration 
in Salem, Massachusetts, in May 1878, according to an attached note in 
my grandmother's handwriting, and I have often wondered whether any 
complete tinfoil recording from that era had survived.  It would be 
fascinating to hear such a recording, and I would assume one could do 
that with today's technology.  Has sound from any of those early 
recordings ever been recovered?

-- Jack Raymond