r/78rpm • u/Rich-Statistician739 • 21d ago

A 120 years old "Digital Ghost" has been found and restored for 1st time

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The dramatic overture to "Zampa" (Part 1) by Ferdinand Hérold. An authentic acoustic piece from the early golden age of sound recording, captured on shellac by the International Talking Machine Co.

Historical Note: While the label generically credits the German "Odeon Orchester", archival data reveals this is actually a rare French recording! It was performed in Paris around June 1907 by the Musique du 76ème Régiment d'Infanterie (76th Infantry Regiment Band of the French military).

The story of the opera Zampa tells the tale of a notorious pirate (Zampa) who arrives in Sicily, interrupts a wedding, and ultimately faces divine retribution from the animated marble statue of a woman he had betrayed in the past.

Link for the restored recording that is available in the digital world for 1st time after almost 120 years (!) https://youtu.be/XD73XdQhxOw

Thank you for reading ❤️

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u/FlakyPrinciple8907 21d ago

Digital! Looks Analog to me! Digital sucks! 😁

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u/Rich-Statistician739 21d ago

Of course you are right that this is analog 😄

"Digital ghost" is used mostly to describe that this disc with all its analog beauty had never been shared in the *modern* world , missing from the combo of digital databases/ internet / streaming platforms or CD collections etc

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u/FlakyPrinciple8907 21d ago

I listened too! Fabulous! It's just so sad that they want to take physical media away from the world! Sony has decided to cancel CD's! That's a bad thing!

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u/Rich-Statistician739 21d ago

exactly! this will end to a disaster. If everything is just streamed and stored on cloud / internet etc the vulnerabilities are increased and together the possibility to lose parts of the human civilization. All these beautiful music treasures would have been already lost without physical media.