ALL the Houdini wax cylinder audio has been saved.
I'm surprised that in all the time you've been working on this you've never come across any enterprising students who'd be interested in creating a similar device for wax cylinders, and thus avoid the risk of damaging the medium. But it did have the advantage that the signal could be extracted from an LP without anything making physical contact with the LP, and thus avoid the danger of damaging the medium on which the waveform was recorded. It wasn't a saleable product because by that time CDs were taking over from LPs. This headline could have easily read, 'The Houdini wax cylinders are no more.'" As far back as the mid-1980s, I remember some enterprising grad students worked on a way use laser light to read the waveform from the height of the plastic in the canyons of the grooves of LP records. You wrote, "David didn't need to do this. This is an astounding achievement! Congratulations! And I hope you'll eventually post the audio on a website, so we can all hear it.īut there is something I do wonder about.
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