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A very different type of antique

It's not uncommon for people to collect old stamps, historic furniture, or heirloom silver, but ... antique sounds? Visit Glenn Sage's Tinfoil.com, a site that's "dedicated to the preservation of early recorded sounds." Today, thanks to the incredible mass-production of CDs, DVDs, and videotapes, it's easy to take the ubiquitous availability of high-quality audio and visual recordings for granted--but when you listen to the clips available at this site, you instantly get a feel for what it must have been like to live in a time when these wonderful, scratchy recordings still seemed like a work of magic. This site is packed with all kinds information and photos--you can even get your antique recordings digitally transferred to CDs for free. Do yourself a favor and visit Tinfoil. Christy Stabin

Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:35:03 -0800