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Listen to early music!
Listen to original recordings of early music. That´s a dream we all share, because we will never be able to know exactly how old music was played in its time. This is not possible - but I´ve just discovered a homepage where it is possible to listen to very early music. Both wax cylinders an tinfoil recordings gathered right here at tinfoil.com. Interesting to hear how people sang and played around 1890-1913; in the years just before the sinking of Titanic (yes! it is possible to hear a recording of ´Nearer My God to Thee´ from those years!) Well, have a listen (and a laugh). Cylinders of the month! 
Brilliant link! Thanks.
Comment by Tia O'Connor — February 18, 2006 @ 12:45 pm
That’s not entirely true that there are no original recordings of early music. If you’re willing to fudge a little bit, there are such things as musical clocks, which existed in all sorts of configurations. I have an old LP which has three pieces from a seventeenth-century Austrian ottavino spinet musical clock, and it’s very interesting to listen to. Oftentimes, the trick was to see how well the builder could make the thing sound like it was in fact a hman being playing, so it’s very interesting to hear the harpsichord set, with its arpeggiations, etc.
Of course, someone needs to release recordings of a bunch of these–Handel and Haydn organ clocks and any ottavino spinets would be a good start.
Beth
Comment by Beth Garfinkel — January 26, 2007 @ 1:36 am