This is a good read in its own right:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/07/amanda_petrusich_s_do_not_…
but the thesis that some 78rpm records constitute the only surviving
example of a particular recording, with no master in an archive
somewhere, sent chills up my spine.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk