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Revolutions in sound recording
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Revolutions in sound recording

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Figure 7: The Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh

Figure 8: The Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh

Figure 20: taken from www.acmi.net.au/AIC/BLATTNER_STILLE.html

Figure 13 and 25: Ampex GB Limited

We also thank Nigel Bewley (British Library Sound Archive), Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (King's College, London) and Robert Philip (The Open University) for advice on the restoration of recordings; Stephen Potter for loan of the 78 rpm disc set of the Elgar Violin Concerto; and Bill Strang for playing the piano for Activities 17 and 26.

Every effort has been made to trace all the copyright owners, but if any has been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

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