1889 Emile Berliner Experimental Recording "Schalldruck" 12cm
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Description
In 1889 Emile Berliner made this recording while staying in Hanover, Germany. It's a 12cm (8.5") disc, which plays at approximately 50rpm. Berliner speaks on the disc about how it's being made so that experiments could be performed to photo-chemically recreate the disc. The results of those experiments are not known, but Berliner did eventually abandon the idea. The only evidence of these experiments is a single image of the disc, which Berliner donated the to the Library of Congress. Over the course of several years, I developed the technologies to etch the image of the disc to a new plate, accomplishing what Berliner was attempting 132 years ago. There are no surviving copies of this disc from 1889, the version which I've "reconstituted" from its image are the only playable copies of this disc. Now that this disc has been brought back into the physical realm, it now qualifies as the earliest, playable disc record in the world and also contains the earliest recording of singing in German. The disc comes with a custom sleeve and a booklet describing the history of Berliner's experiment. This is a limited edition release of a truly historic disc, which has only recently become available thanks to the advanced photo-chemical research of Don Wilson of Wilson Materials, Philadelphia, PA.
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