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Dwayne Tomah, the youngest fluent Passamaquoddy speaker, sings a Passamaquoddy song outside of his home in Perry, Maine. Tomah is translating and interpreting songs and stories from wax cylinders recorded nearly 130 years ago.

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Historic Recordings Revitalize Language For Passamaquoddy Tribal Members

5:14pm September 03, 2019

A partnership between members of the Passamaquoddy tribe and the Library of Congress to transcribe wax cylinder recordings from 1890 is bringing the tribe's language back to life.

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Wim Janssen, one of the musicians involved in the recording project, plays a viola made by master luthier Girolamo Amati in 1615.

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An Italian Town Fell Silent So The Sounds Of A Stradivarius Could Be Preserved

12:51am February 18, 2019

by Christopher Livesay

The mayor of Cremona, Italy, blocked traffic during five weeks of recording and asked residents to please keep quiet so master musicians could play four instruments — note by note — for posterity.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his son Yair visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem in March 2015.

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Netanyahu Says Strip Club Recording Of His Son Is A Media 'Shaming' Plot

4:46pm January 10, 2018

by Daniel Estrin

"Bro, my dad got your dad a sweet deal," Yair Netanyahu, then 24, is heard telling friends amid talk of prostitution and lap dances in a secretly recorded conversation from 2015.