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Ripping music the old-fashioned way.
Because you can find just about any kind of content on the web, there’s a TikTok channel that’s almost entirely devoted to wax phonograph cylinders and the devices that play them.
One process for printing music on them, shown here by phonograph repair person Wyatt Markus, involves playing music into a metal cone. That transfers the sound waves through a cutting stylus that etches them into the wax.
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