Events
Library of Congress to Host Daylong Sound and Recording Event
This Thursday! Treasured displays and expert panels on the history of recording open to the public on August 24.
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Discovering—and Preserving—the Earliest Known Stereo Recordings
In 1901, German anthropologist Berthold Laufer used two wax cylinder recorders simultaneously to record Shanghai musicians, unintentionally creating the earliest-known stereo recordings.
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