{"id":15030,"date":"2025-02-04T06:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T06:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/meet-the-father-of-all-music-piracy-national\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T06:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T06:03:14","slug":"meet-the-father-of-all-music-piracy-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/meet-the-father-of-all-music-piracy-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the father of all music piracy &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Because God quickly realized that humans were a thieving bunch, He made rules against stealing one of the first things downloaded to Moses\u2019 tablet 1,500 years ago: \u201cThou shalt not steal.\u201d It\u2019s ranked at number four on the list of things we\u2019re not supposed to do, so it\u2019s pretty clear that this was important to The Almighty: Don\u2019t take stuff that\u2019s not yours.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Lionel Mapleson didn\u2019t think he was stealing. When he did what he did, it <em>wasn\u2019t<\/em> stealing. Only later did history brand Mapleson as the father of all music piracy.<\/p>\n<p>Mapleson came from a long line of music librarians who can be traced to the 1700s. Before moving from London to New York in 1889, where he hoped to become a great concert musician, his father trained him in the finer points of the occupation. Good thing, too, because six years in, it was clear Mapleson wasn\u2019t cutout to be a top-level performer. His fall back position was a gig as the librarian at the newly formed Metropolitan Opera.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In early 1900, he bought a newfangled Edison Talking Machine \u2014 a phonograph \u2014 so he could listen to the newest thing: Recordings of performances scratched into wax cylinders. A friend then recommended that he purchase a Bettini Micro-Reproducer, a phonograph-style machine that could also record audio onto four-to-six-inch-long cylinders as well as play them back. It was about the size of a suitcase, so it was reasonably portable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou want a perfect reproduction without any metallic resonance, screeches, or blasts?\u201d said the ads. \u201cThen buy the Bettini Micro-Reproducer for the clearest and loudest made! A novice can make a perfect record!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Entertainment<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The machine would soon win a gold medal for innovation at the 1900 Paris Exhibition. Mapleson picked one up for $30 (equivalent to $1,000 today) on March 17, 1900.<\/p>\n<p>On March 22, he wrote this in his diary: \u201cFor the present, I neither work properly nor eat nor sleep. I\u2019m a phonograph maniac!! Always making or buying records. The Bettini apparatus is simply perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His family became used to Mapleson recording them at home as he captured everyday audio, keeping some cylinders and recycling others by carefully shaving out the groves. Mapleson had become one of the original recorders of home audio.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h3>Get breaking National news<\/h3>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As a librarian and archivist, he also realized the Bettini\u2019s potential; he had the ability \u2014 and the access \u2014 to record performances from the Met\u2019s stage for posterity. Then, after letting his bosses at the Met know what he had planned, he got to work. On Jan. 16, 1901, he recorded Nellie Melba in an opera entitled <em>Le Cid<\/em>. He set up the Bettini in the prompter\u2019s box, a booth in front of the stage where someone sat to remind actors of their lines when they blanked.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But the audio he captured from that vantage point wasn\u2019t very good, so Mapleson nested on a catwalk maybe 40 feet above the stage and the orchestra. A large horn was hung on the Met\u2019s fly system \u2014 the network of ropes and pulleys used to raise and lower curtains and scenery \u2014 to funnel as much sound as possible to the Bettini.<\/p>\n<p>For the next couple of years, Mapleson recorded dozens, maybe hundreds, of performances two minutes at a time (that was a cylinder\u2019s maximum capacity), keeping the good ones and recycling cylinders when the gig didn\u2019t live up to his standards. No one complained except for the occasional member of the audience who was annoyed that the Bettini\u2019s horn interfered with sightlines.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Mapleson\u2019s recordings were surprisingly clear considering the technology of the time. Others were muffled, crackly, and tough on the ears. But they all had one thing in common: They documented music of the era at one of the most famous venues in the world. He also managed to capture some famous singers and conductors who never had a chance to make a formal commercial recording.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a sample.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__oembed\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Mapleson Cylinders: Tosca &quot;LIVE&quot;: Eames, de Marchi, Scotti, etc. (1903)\" width=\"801\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XTJv5qC62Bg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mapleson was keen to share his experiments, often inviting singers, conductors, and musicians to listen to what they had done.<\/p>\n<section id=\"content-dynamic-trending-stories\" class=\"l-inlineStories l-inlineStories--tile u-hide-tablet-landscape\" aria-label=\"Dynamic trending stories section\">\n<p>\n\t\t<span class=\"l-inlineStories__title c-heading c-heading--strikethrough\">Trending Now<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/10995839\/canafa-aluminum-europe-trump-tariffs\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-a0125-000101.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" title=\"Canada to divert aluminum to Europe in response to Trump tariffs\" data-title=\"\">Canada to divert aluminum to Europe in response to Trump tariffs<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/10995690\/should-canada-ban-x-and-tesla-why-calls-are-growing\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2185933741.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" title=\"Should Canada ban X and Tesla? Why calls are growing\" data-title=\"\">Should Canada ban X and Tesla? Why calls are growing<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"l-article__oembed\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Faust Waltz Mapleson Cylinder 1903 live MET\" width=\"801\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pt3m2Xxssu8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mapleson\u2019s semi-secret recording practices suddenly ended in 1904, perhaps because someone somewhere realized the commercial value of such cylinders. Maybe it was the Met demanding that their employee stop freelancing for himself so it could make and sell such recordings. Maybe some artists complained, realizing that their talent and labour was being used without their permission. Or maybe he just got bored.<\/p>\n<p>By the time he packed up his machine, Mapleson had a library of maybe 140 of these very fragile cylinder recordings. Others were given away as gifts or thrown out. When he died of a heart attack on Dec. 21, 1937, no one quite knew what to do with them.<\/p>\n<p>William Seltsam, the head of the International Record Collectors Club, had met with Mapleson earlier in 1937 and was given a challenge: Do something with these blasted things. After borrowing 124 cylinders from the family, Seltsam tinkered with things until he was able to slowly move the audio to 1o-inch 78 RPM records.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Those recordings have since been issued and reissued many times, including on CD, most recently with digital techniques that screened out the static and scratchiness.<\/p>\n<p>Long-lost cylinders still occasionally turn up. Some were found in a junk store in Brooklyn. Others were acquired by collectors. A couple were located in Mexico. The family, which had been sitting on about 16 cylinders for decades, donated them and about 50 journals documenting their contents and other events on Mapleson\u2019s life to the New York Public Library for study. They were found in a beer cooler that had lived under a recliner on Long Island.<\/p>\n<p>But back to the issue of piracy. Was Mapleson the equivalent of someone making an illicit recording of a concert today? Not really, because when he was doing his thing, sound recordings were not yet covered by copyright and intellectual property laws. The technology of audio recording was so new that the legal codes had yet to recognize that making unauthorized recordings (and distributing them) as something that should be filed under \u201cThou shalt not steal.\u201d American sound recording copyright laws weren\u2019t settled until 1972.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unfair, then, to include Mapleson in the parade of characters who have taken and\/or distributed other people\u2019s music without their permission. 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