Wow! You should contact ACMI or the museum. Even though yours is a tape, it might have extras on it that the original doesn’t. Or there might be technicalities in preserving it or digitising. Great find!
Comment on Discussion Thread 🌏 Sunday 11 October 2026
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Here’s some interesting family history.
Rationalising some shit and found a tape of great gramps at the back of a draw. Bit of digging… turns out he made the first ever audio recording in Australia back in 1896 on an edison wax cylinder recorder.
The tape:
The history (and original recording):
www.nfsa.gov.au/…/hen-convention-thomas-rome
His son (grandfather) donated the equipment and cylinders and was only re-discovered in the 80’s.
No one in fam knew that until I found the tape yesterday.
Ol’ boy reckons he still has a wax cylinder player in a cupboard somewhere 👀 Big if true.
Gonna digitise the tape and clean up the audio with modern software.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 1 week ago
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 week ago
That is so freakin’ cool, what a great piece of history!
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 1 week ago
That is amazing and love it! What a song…
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 week ago
this is AWESOME 😀
I’d so want to listen to it all and check family records and even talk to old family members to ask if the remember anything