By: Ardis E. Parshall - April 25, 2018 A newspaper story out of Chicago, reprinted around the country in the summer of 1895, tells about the difficulties in capturing the true tones of a woman’s voice on the fragile wax cylinders that were then the state-of-the-art recording medium. One woman, a Miss Ollivier, was making a success of it, though, according to report. Her studio “is furnished with a piano, from which the entire front h...
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