It seems like every moment of our lives is captured and digitized these days. But so many sounds recorded throughout history have just been lost, from radio transmissions to symphony performances. Stanford University has an archive dedicated entirely to saving sounds. In this episode of The World According to Sound, Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett play us a record from Stanford that preserves a peculiar piece of music history.
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