Every effort made these past few months has led to this moment: the release of the audio from the wax cylinders in Lenora’s trunk.
As I found in my time digitizing these tubes, there is a lot of detail to unpack. I’ve decided to group them into batches, in sequence as numbered by Lenora, with a new bundle released every Sunday in October. My hope is that this will give us all an opportunity to investigate and discuss what we are hearing. Some of this has left me shaken.
There was a pair of items in the trunk that I suspect are most pertinent to the contents of today’s recovered audio, presented here for your inspection. ****
here4thefun: I wonder if the pencilled-in musical notes on the sheet music represent some form of musical cipher?
Sarah the Wheat Girl: It’s gotta be a musical cipher, but I can’t crack it! I can read music, but that’s not helping.
Ryan D: I think I need to just print out the sheet and fold it myself to read it. I was trying to be clever and do it with image editing but I’m not that talented.
leftfeelder: Any luck getting the sheet to print and fold? It looks like the written notes will come together to give us a portion of a tune… maybe it matches the tune that the brother-in-law was hammering out on the piano?
Ryan D: Not yet but I think I at least have the notes. I’ll double check. Not sure if I can spoiler text in these comments though when I post them.
Yankee White:
Ryan D: Thank you. I don’t have easy access to a printer, unfortunately.