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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Wax cylinder recording, museum number 14-1731, described as Urdu words. Repetition of 14-1730. Test record for ability to perceive foreign sounds. 14-1729 to 14-1735 were made to test the phonetic apperception of foreign sounds in words not understood, also the reproducing ability of the phonograph. The key or transcriptions of the words on these records are filed under accession 400C.

Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Wax cylinder recording, museum number 14-1730, described as Urdu words. Test record for ability to perceive foreign sounds. 14-1729 to 14-1735 were made to test the phonetic apperception of foreign sounds in words not understood, also the reproducing ability of the phonograph. The key or transcriptions of the words on these records are filed under accession 400C.

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