Competition
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You are invited to find out what language is sung and spoken on my "Coral Chorale" (428 kB)
Listen to this recording from a 78 rpm shellac disk, retrieved in 1969 from a depth of 12 meters in the ocean surrounding a Caribbean island.
I found a black artifact protruding from a coral head. The thing come off without breaking and I held a 21 cm record in my hands.
Of the two labels one was missing, the other unreadable.
The grooves were completely embedded in barnacles, coral and algae.
After flying it back home, I set out to carefully remove the encrustation, soaking it in luke-warm soap water. With most of the growth gone, the disk would play on my old shellac record player.
Perhaps the most surprising part of this story is that the shellac record was unbroken.
and if you are the first with the correct answer, you will receive an audio-CD (either classical or jazz).