wax cylinders

Most of the stuff we agent is fanzines, but there's a few oddities in there and one of them is wax cylinders.  (someone ordered half a dozen this morning)

I just love the way the technology operates.  An emailed file can be recorded onto a wax cylinder.  The really old meets the really new.  (You can even get special calibration cylinders to measure things like wow and flutter.

(I'm assuming that people already know that wax cylinder players - phonographs -  were the technology before record players)

So that's where that song comes from - Carousel

When you walk through a storm
Hold your chin up high
And don't be afraid of the dark.
At the end of a storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet, silver song of a lark.
Walk on, through the wind,
Walk on, through the rain,
Though your dreams be tossed and blown.
Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart,
And you'll never walk alone,
You'll never walk alone.

I watched Carousel last night, but apart from some really good musical numbers (including the above), I was seriously underwhelmed by the movie.

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