A carillon you can play from a web page new Twenty-three bells, a slow connection and a very patient tower keeper.

11:40 am · via a bell ringer's diary · 8 comments · tagged bells museums

“A tape recorder is the only instrument that improves when you drop it.”

10:15 am · from an interview with a studio caretaker · tagged tape

Building a glass harmonica from a salad spinner It works, it is dangerous, and the instructions say so twice.

9:02 am · via a shed workshop · 3 comments · tagged glass circuits

The foghorn archive linked last week has moved. The old address now plays a single, rather sad, tone.

8:30 am · tagged foghorns archives

Every whistled language, on one map Four are still used daily; one is used mostly to call goats.

6:20 pm · via a field recordist · 15 comments · tagged whistling

A music box that punches its own cards Slowly, loudly and never the same tune twice.

2:45 pm · via a clock repairer · tagged music boxes toys

“We tuned the organ to the room, and then they moved the room.”

11:05 am · from a parish newsletter · tagged organs tuning

Dawn chorus, recorded from the same window for nine years The blackbird gets earlier; the traffic gets there first.

9:10 pm · via a sound archive · 22 comments · tagged birdsong tape

Scores written for factory sirens Performed once, in 1922, to a city that had no choice but to listen.

4:00 pm · via a museum notebook · tagged sirens scores