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A comment on The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps (2015).

Re:The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stam... by runeb on Friday April 17, 2020 @03:34AM (#22896984)
A similar interesting usage of a exotic medium for pressed music are the bone records or "rib records", apparently used to smuggle western music into Soviet [1]. I've also heard of pressing music into postcards, but cannot find a good source on that at the moment.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2016/01/09/462289635/bones-and-grooves-w...

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Re:The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stam... by severine on Friday April 17, 2020 @05:01AM (#22897359)
Wow, thank you!

Rib records are an even deeper rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribs_(recordings)

On vinyl postcards, there's at least one current label pressing them: http://www.vinylpost.co/releases/ (not affiliated).

There goes my morning...

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