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From: atticus@mindspring.com (Andy Walton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Old Glass more brittle
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 04:21:42 -0500

In article <4nj4ul$522@bessel.nando.net>, grrc@bessel.nando.net (grrc) wrote:

:A long time ago, I read something about using a laser to track the spiral :scoring of of a glass vase; (vase turns on a lathe, and the artisan holds :diamond agains the vase remarkalby like old wax cylinder recordings of :Edison) - supposedly, after using a computer to filter out noise - Voila! :you have a recording of ancient egyptian aritisans chatting. This sounds :like a real stretch -- but sounds almost possible. Any comments? :
:Rodger (oops, or is this in the FAQ already) Coghlan

Not in the FAQ, though mayhap it should be...

This is a more plausible variant on the usual, in which the material is clay and the "using a computer to filter out noise" bit is absent.

If nothing else, this would be a boon for linguistics -- an audible record of a language long before audio recordings existed. It would certainly be vorifiable, one would think, and yet I, for one, have not seen a cite.

Andy Walton * atticus@mindspring.com * http://www.mindspring.com/~atticus


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