USSR Ukraine X-RAY ROENTGEN BONES RECORD UNIQUE ITEM AUTHENTIC Odessa folk.
Music on the Bones
(Example) Remembrance of one witness of that period
Before the advent of tape recorders in the 1950s, when vinyl records were scarce, people in the Soviet Union began to record banned Western music on used x-rays. Using a special device, banned pirated jazz and rock and roll records were "sliced" onto thick radiographs taken from hospital trash cans and then sliced into discs 23-25 centimeters in diameter. “They cut the rounded grooves of the X-ray recording, then shaped them with nail scissors and burned a central hole with a cigarette,” says author Anja von Bremzen. "We listened to Elvis on the lung scans, and Duke Ellington on Aunt Masha's brain scan - banned Western music was marked on the internal organs of Soviet citizens."