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    Picturing a Voice: Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone

    Picturing a Voice: Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone

    By Rob Mullender-Ross

    Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts Hughes. Rob Mullender-Ross explores the significance of the Welsh singer’s ingenious set of images, which until recently were thought to be lost. more

    27 Nov 2019
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