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   In message , Athel Cornish-Bowden   
    writes:   
   >On 2019-04-11 15:23:58 +0000, david1940 said:   
   >   
   >> I have often regretted that I have no recording of my parents' voices.   
   >> We are busy collecting facts about our ancestors but have no idea of   
   >>how they spoke.   
   >> In this day and age it would be easy to get them to say a few words,   
   >>read a poem or passage from a newspaper or get them to give their   
   >>opinion on current events (Brexit anyone?)   
   >>  How many of this group have done this?   
   >   
   >A good idea, but no, I haven't. Only my own generation left now.   
   >   
   I was going to say same here, but I think I may have some reel-to-reel   
   tapes of amateur dramatics - but quite professional - featuring my Dad,   
   in various Gilbert and Sullivan productions. (I know he was the judge in   
   Trial By Jury, but I'm not sure if that was recorded.) Now, where on   
   earth are those tapes! (I remember also even an LP of something he was   
   involved in, from I think the 1960s; from what I remember, the quality   
   was terrible - it was obviously done by some company that made records   
   for people.)   
      
   If people do have things but on obscure formats (even cylinders - but   
   even more obscure formats: wire, band, ...), I'd definitely recommend   
   Poppy Records: if he hasn't got a machine to play it (which he almost   
   certainly has), he might make one ...   
   >   
   I don't _think_ I have mum. Telephone answering machine tapes might well   
   be a source. Anyone recently bereaved, I know it's not the sort of thing   
   you want to think about let alone do, but look quickly (because they   
   don't keep them long, 30 days is common) in your 1571 and other similar   
   voicemail storages.   
      
   Another source might be correspondence - "tapespondence"; I know my gran   
   (Bedlington, Northumberland, England) and her brother in America used to   
   correspond by tape. Not sure but I think I may have one cassette of him   
   ...   
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