I had a conversation today with Judith Gray head of the Federal Cylinder Project, and Jennifer Cutting transcriber of the folk music division of The library of Congress. We were talking about the playback of the Phonautograph plates. Anyway somwhere in the conversation, I had mentioned the authenticity of the Walt Whitman cylinder, and how most of the collector community was saying it was a fraud, and not real. They said it was authentic, and were not aware that it was in question. And I still came to an iconclusive myself because I myself made a cylinder copy of the poem and the result was not that much different than the supposed fake. I used a glass diaphragm and original blank . > _________________________________________________________________ How well do you know your celebrity gossip? http://originals.msn.com/thebigdebate?ocid=T002MSN03N0707A