Lots and lots of old, old recordings

In case any of you missed, as I did, the NYT article on the University of California's Cylinder Digitization and Preservation Project, I'm giving you all a heads up, trying to spread the word. Apparently the U. of C. has managed to accumulate an audio library consisting of about 6000 wax cylinder recordings made between 1890 and about 1924 or so. And they just put all of it online. Pretty fascinating stuff!

You can, and should, go browse their collection. All the songs are available as free downloads as both compressed MP3 files and, if you prefer that sort of thing, as gargantuan WAV files.

Also, big gratitude to for giving me a heads-up on this one.