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Listening through the history of recording technology

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Otto Rindlisbacher playing the fiddle
Otto Rindlisbacher, folk singer and maker of stringed instruments, and violin collection, sitting in his shop holding a Hardanger fiddle. One of Rindlisbacher’s recordings is part of UW-Madison’s Mills Music Library’s Press Play: Recorded Sound from Groove to Stream exhibit. (Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society.)

UW-Madison’s Mills Music Library has an archive of recordings dating more than a century. We talk to the curator of a sampling of recordings from the past 160 years about what’s in the library’s collection and how recording technology influences the art.

Episode Credits

  • Kate Archer Kent Host
  • Joe Tarr Producer
  • Maria Lopez Technical Director
  • Nathan Gibson Guest

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