Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The State Library of South Australia has digitised wax cylinder recordings from 1901, featuring the voices of Thomas James Mitchell, his family and the South Australian-born bass-baritone and songwriter, Peter Smith Dawson.

This video features Peter Kolomitsev, Audio Visual Preservation Coordinator, talking about the wax cylinders in the collection and how they were recorded.

Read more about the story
www.slsa.sa.gov.au/voices-captured-wax-digitising-wax-cylinder-recordings-from-1901

Background music featured is an instrumental version of the song 'Enough' by Steve Lennox.

The sheet music for the hymn 'Rock of ages' featured in this video is from the website: hymnologyarchive.com/rock-of-ages-cleft-for-me