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At Charles Fletcher Lummis’s Highland Park home, a singer might have faced a horn shaped like an upside-down traffic cone. PBS SoCal describes how the horn led to a stylus that cut into a spinning wax cylinder, leaving tiny scraps behind. The same machine could then play the cylinder back. A voice heard in that room could be heard again later.
According to PBS SoCal, Lummis invited friends to El Alisal to record traditional Mexican and Native American folk songs, eventually producing more than 450 tunes. It is easy to picture the oddness of the setup: someone singing at a horn in a house, with their performance taking shape in wax as they went. How many of those cylinders remain playable today?
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