Re: The Vernadsky Archive of Jewish Music

[Sam Weiss <SamWeiss...>]

At 04:38 AM 3/24/04, Lori M Simon wrote:
>I asked Vlad about the incomplete pieces and he said it was a limitation
>of the wax cylinders of the time, which recorded as much as their size
>would allow, and that they put as much of any recording on the CD as they 
>had.

That is not the case.  Among the oldest recordings (c.1914) on CD Volume 
one there are several pieces around two minutes long, while some of the 
recordings dating from 1945 are 35 seconds, 47 seconds, etc. The average 
piece is about one minute, irrespective of recording date.

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Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ


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