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Was there ever a successful extraction of Natsume Soseki's voice from a wax cylinder recording?


A Professor of mine mentioned a few weeks ago having seen a wax cylinder on display in a Tokyo arts museum running a special on Natsume Soseki, the father of modern Japanese Literature. The most I have heard as far as this is concerned was that there was an unsuccessful attempt by a Chiba technological institute to digitize the recording in 2003. My internet searches have come up with nothing, though some insist that the recording of Soseki's voice does indeed exist. Might it somehow be out there on the internet somewhere?

Unfortunately, the effort failed:

http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200309/000020030903A0241120.php

Title;An Attempt to Reproduce Soseki Natsume's Voice from a Wax Cylinder Recording.

Author;SUZUKI HIDEO, HIRATSUKA KEN'ICHI, YAMAZAKI OSAMU, MIIDA YOSHIRO, and KIDO KEN'ICHI
Journal Title;Report of Chiba Institute of Technology
Journal Code:G0641A
ISSN:0385-7026
VOL.;NO.50;PAGE.189-200(2003)

From the above:

"Mr. Yasuharu Kake in Kake-town, Yamagata County, Hiroshima Prefecture asked people at Tokyo University to retrieve Soseki Natsume's voice recorded on a wax cylinder(called "rokan" in Japanese). This request was forwarded to us at the Chiba Institute of Technology via Ono Sokki Co., Ltd. Soseki's rokan was recorded in 1905, and it was reported in 1955 that it had become impossible to reproduce his voice from the rokan using a wax cylinder record player. During the last 50 years, Hokkaido University and The Smithsonian Institute have tried to retrieve his voice, but both were unsuccessful. We under-stood that the chance of success would be very small, but we wished that there might be a possibility of finding one syllable of his voice by scanning the whole surface of the rokan with a narrow laser beam. The surface shape(irregularity) on all parts of the rokan was converted to signals and listened to. However, our attempt also turned out to be unsuccessful. We could not achieve our dream to listen to Soseki's voice, but we developed a technique to quantize surface shapes of cylinders and disks, and visualize them and obtain signals from arbitrarily connected points on a computer screen by use of the Java programming language."



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