{"id":2435,"date":"2011-01-30T19:33:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T17:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2018-10-31T18:10:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T16:10:27","slug":"the-virtual-gramophone-historical-recordings-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=2435","title":{"rendered":"The Virtual Gramophone &#8211; Historical Recordings from Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Virtual Gramophone<\/strong> is a site where thousands of recordings from the early 20th century from Canada can be found as podcasts or for immediate download.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Welcome to the Library and Archives of Canada&#8217;s Virtual Gramophone, a multimedia website devoted to the early days of Canadian recorded sound, providing an overview of the 78-rpm era in Canada.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4 id=\"watch-headline-title\">Edison Opera phonograph with blue amberol cylinder (taken from the virtual gramophone)<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Edison Opera phonograph with blue amberol cylinder (taken from the virtual gramophone)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8CeDRLkbCHc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I have also found some recordings with a mandolin on this site. If you search for &#8220;mandolin&#8221; you can find more examples, but the following audio files are available for download:<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" summary=\"Table summary. This list is for the letter L. Column one is the name of the performer; column 2 is the title of the song, column 3 links to the Amicus record, column 4 links to the Real Player files, and column 5 links to the mp3 file.\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Lefman; Rosemarin<\/td>\n<td>El choclo : tango argentin<\/td>\n<td>Details<\/td>\n<td>Listen<\/td>\n<td>[MP3\u00a01,492\u00a0KB]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lefman; Rosemarin<\/td>\n<td>Les flots du Danube = Waves of the Danube<\/td>\n<td>Details<\/td>\n<td>Listen<\/td>\n<td>[MP3\u00a01,510\u00a0KB]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lefman; Rosemarin<\/td>\n<td>La spagnola : valse = [The spanish dancer]<\/td>\n<td>Details<\/td>\n<td>Listen<\/td>\n<td>[MP3\u00a01,468\u00a0KB]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"1\" summary=\"Table summary. This list is for the letter T. Column one is the name of the performer; column 2 is the title of the song, column 3 links to the Amicus record, column 4 links to the Real Player files, and column 5 links to the mp3 file.\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Trio Napolitain<\/td>\n<td>La belle Italie = Beautiful Italy : polka<\/td>\n<td>Details<\/td>\n<td>Listen<\/td>\n<td>[MP3\u00a02,543\u00a0KB]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Trio Napolitain<\/td>\n<td>Belle Napolitaine = Beautiful Napolitan : valse<\/td>\n<td>Details<\/td>\n<td>Listen<\/td>\n<td>[MP3\u00a02,651\u00a0KB]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>You can use the <strong>Index Sorted by Performer<\/strong> to locate and download those files:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectionscanada.gc.ca\/gramophone\/028011-9000-e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.collectionscanada.gc.ca\/gramophone\/028011-9000-e.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also subscribe to several podcasts which collect certain audios to get audio file downloaded automatically to itunes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectionscanada.gc.ca\/gramophone\/028011-4000-e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.collectionscanada.gc.ca\/gramophone\/028011-4000-e.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following version of the Maple Leaf Rag can also be found in the Virtual Gramophone:<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"watch-headline-title\">Vera Guilaroff improvises Scott Joplin&#8217;s Maple Leaf Rag 1926<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vera Guilaroff improvises Scott Joplin&#039;s Maple Leaf Rag 1926\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gkOdpwQuAkk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Virtual Gramophone site has a lot of interesting information about the history of recorded music in Canada. You can find background articles, biographies of many artists, some videos of the gramophones playing the old records and much mor &#8211; a great\u00a0 site if you are interested in historical recordings made on 78 records or even Edison cylinders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectionscanada.gc.ca\/gramophone\/index-e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.collectionscanada.gc.ca\/gramophone\/index-e.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Sheet music<\/h4>\n<p>Another site dedicated to the history of music in Canada is the siet <strong>Sheet Music From Canada&#8217;s Past:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectionscanada.gc.ca\/sheetmusic\/index-e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.collectionscanada.gc.ca\/sheetmusic\/index-e.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There you can find some nice galleries of title pages of old sheet music, several background articles and much more.<\/p>\n<h4>Additional information<\/h4>\n<p>Link collection for other great sites with <strong>historical recordings<\/strong> of shellac records: <a href=\"http:\/\/pinboard.in\/u:mandoisland\/t:gramophone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/pinboard.in\/u:mandoisland\/t:gramophone\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virtual Gramophone is a site where thousands of recordings from the early 20th century from Canada can be found as podcasts or for immediate download. 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