The object lesson of a peanut read by James Whitcomb Riley.
| Description: |
James Whitcomb Riley reads his poem The object lesson of a peanut in this unpublished 1912 recording pressed by the Victor Talking Machine Company. Each disc was played on a Technics SP-15 turntable with an SME tone arm and a Stanton Model 500 cartridge; stylus was an Expert Diamond Stylus 2.8 mil truncated elliptical; phono preamp was a Souvenir EQS MK12. The analog-to-digital converter was a Mytek Stereo96 ADC; soundcard used was a Lynx AES 16; audio recording/editing software was Wavelab 6. All preservation files were recorded at 24-bit 96 Khs. Production master files were signal processed with Waves restoration plug-ins and dithered to 16-bit 44.1 Khs. Preservation engineer: Paul Mahern. |
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| Origin: | 1912-06-07; 1912 |
| Created By: |
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916. |
| Contributor(s): |
Victor Talking Machine Company |
| Source: |
http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/riley/id/15 |
| Collection: |
James Whitcomb Riley |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
In Copyright |
| Subjects: |
American literature--19th century Dialect literature American literature--Sound recordings Authors--Indiana |
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