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>http://www.tinfoil.com/
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>Hi, here is the web page I found for assignment 1. It is a page containing
>recordings of sounds originally recorder on cylinder record players. This
>site intrigued me, since it takes old recordings, scratchy ones by today's
>standards, and plays them back to you, digitized, and still containing
>the glory of their "flaws." The notion that a recording has a certain value
>or charm because it was made with and for inferior equipment is quite a
>concept. Using the web to make these recordings available adds an interest-
>ing twist....
>
>Alex
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