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Release Date: 2020-05Label: Canary Records
First version released October 4, 2015, the content was expanded a few times afterwards.—From release page—
Almost an hour of commercial early 20th century recordings of human beings imitating birds, a practice probably pre-dating anything resembling music or language, from France, India, Australia, and the United States.
download includes over 1,700 words of notes, including a Post-Natural Chronology of Bird Imitation, Recording, and Reproduction, recording information, and relevant quotes.
for Rich Pell of the Center for Post-Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA, obviously.
Thank you David Murray.
Tracks 10-13 were added July 2018 and are not reflected in the notes. All are by Edward Avis, recorded for Columbia in early 1920.
Track 3 was added May, 2020 and was recorded May 14, 1914.
—Format—
1, 2, 4 to 9, 16 to 20: 16 Bit, 44.1 kHz
3, 10, 11: 24 Bit, 48 kHz
12 to 15, 21: 24 Bit, 44.1 kHz