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2026-03-27 17:05 UTC
this kind of thing is so cool. we know from listings that there are a fair number of klezmer test pressings from the 1910s/1920s that never saw a commercial release. none in this set yet, but I hope some surface eventually. In some cases they were done by people with no other recordings, in other cases a large catalogue but they had some that were deemed not commercially viable and never released.
https://www.library.ucsb.edu/digitized-test-pressings-michael-brooks-collection
#78rpm #MusicHistory #klezmer #MusicArchives
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@carkner@klezmor.im 2026-03-27 17:09
I talked to Lorin Sklamberg, music archivist at YIVO, about lost test pressings of klezmer musicians when I was doing a fellowship there last year and he was very interested in it too but didn't know where such things existed. he was telling me about remastered recent releases of early Edison test presses, not klezmer but of old European art singers and stuff, and how astounding they were.