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{SPEAKER name="Dorothy Lee"}
We are the Federal Cylinder Project discussion. And, my name is Dorothy Lee.
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{SPEAKER name="Dorothy Lee"}
Next to me is Gus Palmer, and then Tom Vennum, Luis Alfredo, Villiana Hyde, and Patricia Duro is behind the speaker.
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{SPEAKER name="Dorothy Lee"}
Some of you may have seen our display in the Learning Center.
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{SPEAKER name="Dorothy Lee"}
The Federal Cylinder Project was founded about 6 or 7 years ago to preserve sound recordings - early sound recordings - of the music of a number of cultures
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{SPEAKER name="Dorothy Lee"}
that were recorded originally on wax cylinders, and Gus has an exhibit for you - that's an Edison wax cylinder.
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{SPEAKER name="Dorothy Lee"}
The cylinder recorder was invented in the late 1870s by Thomas Edison as a way of - he thought - uh, improving business - it was originally a dicta-phone machine.
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{SPEAKER name="Dorothy Lee"}
But those people, who recorded and studied the music of various cultures in the field,
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{SPEAKER name="Dorothy Lee"}
immediately saw it as a very useful device for recording songs and language of a number of American Indian cultures, particularly.
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{SPEAKER name="Dorothy Lee"}
In fact, in 1890, as an experiment, J. Walter Fewkes, who was an archeologist for the BAE, took a cylinder recorder to Calais, Maine
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{SPEAKER name="Dorothy Lee"}
to record Passamaquoddy Indian people, and we have-- You can hear that recording.
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{SPEAKER name="Dorothy Lee"}
In fact, we are going to play it for you right now.
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{SPEAKER name="Dorothy Lee"}
This was recorded in March 18th of 1890 in Calais, Maine, and it's the first ethnographic sound recording made of,
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{SPEAKER name="Dorothy Lee"}
American Indian people. This is a Snake Song, sung by Noel Joseph, in Calais, Maine.
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Transcription Notes:
Reopened. Reviewer did not notice no Speakers had been inserted. I will fix this.