Dahlia
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On today's date January 10, 1949, RCA introduced the 45 RPM record. I had lots of these as a kid!
Back in 1949
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flowerbug
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we had one of those wind-up 78s which worked, then there were 33s and 45s and vinyls instead of the harder ones that were made of out something else that was in those 78s.
i never have messed with the wire spools or wax cylinders.
computers at least make it possible to store the information in a more reproduceable format, but that doesn't mean that the little machines that can read those formats will stick around as we've seen the 8" floppies and large reels of tapes change into other things like dvds and bluerays and now SSDs and microcards or whatevers, but at least the bits can usually be recovered in some way as long as the physical media doesn't fall apart completely.
however, just to keep things interesting they're now able to read the scrolls that were wrapped up and preserved in some of the cities around Mt. Etna by various eruptions. can you imagine that? something written thousands of years ago, put in some place, smothered by ashes and somehow kept intact enough even though burned or transformed so they can't be unrolled but they can be imaged and read...
digitS'
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You must recognize these 
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Jewelry is being made in this shape nowadays.
Steve
.Jewelry is being made in this shape nowadays.
Steve
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Dahlia
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I wonder if they ever find music in those old digs!?
flowerbug
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oh yes! a symbol of the corruption of youth!
flowerbug
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"The earliest known music is recorded in cuneiform script on clay tablets, specifically the "Hurrian Hymn No. 6," which dates back to around 1400 BC. This hymn was discovered in the ancient city of Ugarit, located in present-day Syria."
"Kids these days!" -- olde guy 3500 yrs ago (i've certainly heard a lot worse)
"The tablet h.6 contains the lyrics for a hymn to Nikkal, a Semitic goddess of orchards, and instructions for a singer accompanied by a nine-stringed sammûm, a type of harp or, much more likely, a lyre.One or more of the tablets also contains instructions for tuning the harp."
and Mom just said as i read that to her that if she ever had to play an instrument that the harp was the one, but then of course i had to tell her that there are a lot of jokes about tuning harps... the whirled goes round and round.
"Kids these days!" -- olde guy 3500 yrs ago (i've certainly heard a lot worse)
"The tablet h.6 contains the lyrics for a hymn to Nikkal, a Semitic goddess of orchards, and instructions for a singer accompanied by a nine-stringed sammûm, a type of harp or, much more likely, a lyre.One or more of the tablets also contains instructions for tuning the harp."
and Mom just said as i read that to her that if she ever had to play an instrument that the harp was the one, but then of course i had to tell her that there are a lot of jokes about tuning harps... the whirled goes round and round.
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Dahlia
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Isn't that an adapter for an old 45 record so you can play it on a record player that accepts only a smaller center hole?
