随筆

Cylinders and 78s hiss, wobble and cut off after three minutes. Here is what to listen past, and what to listen for.

The scholar's qin, the tea table and the silence of the Japanese tea room, and why Kotone's tea stream sounds the way it does.

The great recordings of the 1930s to the 1960s aren't here, and the reason is copyright. How we decide what Kotone can play.