05.10.07
Antique Phonograph and Gramophone Thai Society (APGTS)
Courtesy of Climax Golden Twins’ blog, I learned of the Antique Phonograph & Gramophone Thai Society (APGTS) and the first phonograph and gramophone museum in Thailand.
The site is mostly in Thai with a little English sprinkled about, but it’s chockablock with photographs, downloadable MP3s you have to hunt for (unless you can read Thai I presume), and illustrated articles such as the one about the Phonautograph, an 1857 invention by one Leon Scott that has “a pulley and when the weight falls, a lamp-blacked glass, under a stiff pig’s bristle, has a translation motion and a stiff pig’s bristle draw a line if no sound.”
Make sure to stop by the photographic tour of the museum. If you happen to be passing through Thailand and wish to visit, you are asked to please first call 02-9399920 or 02-9399553, or email them ahead of time. (I presume it’s in Bangkok but, um, I can’t tell for sure.)
Here’s direct links to some of the MP3s I managed to scrounge up at the site — and apologies if I’ve mangled the titles.
- Siamese Patrol
- Siamesische Watchparade
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Haji Maji said,
March 21, 2008 at 11:03 am
awesome, thanks! FYI, the links are dead…
Spencer said,
March 25, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Hello Haji — Thanks for stopping by.
Looks like a bunch of those direct MP3 links went belly-up in the year since I first posted this, tho the rest of the links are okay. I’ve adjusted the text accordingly — and I still encourage folks to explore the site and find the audio morsels hidden there.
Btw, that’s an impressive Chinese music blog you’ve got going there, my friend!