It just seemed odd that anyone would record a "modern" song on such archaic equipment. They had... what? Records in the 20s. They had radio. Someone had to have gone through a lot of effort to record that on an Edison cylinder.
Maybe they just wanted to honor its historical significance by preserving it on every medium possible. ?
A lot of people were poor at that time as the Jews were trying to prepare to take over the world. But by the grace of God they were fucked because NSDAP and Hitler suddenly rose to power and stopped their plans.
But apart from the fortunes and losses of history, there were thousands of Edison cylinder recorders around at the time. Such things were like internet and video games, every man used to be able to build clocks, steam engines or even automobiles from scratch. IF they had a place to do it.
We also once knew how to hunt with Yew trees and sinew. When this next ...event... is over, steam engines may be the top technology for 100 years.
It never hurts to save junk, be thrifty and be able to work with what we have because it might be our highest state of technology in the near future.
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