Caption Comp - Dr Thomas McKean

Folklorist, singer, and my supervisor, who hails fae New Hampshire, USA, but bides in Formartine... Dr T A McKean. I had to say something about this picture he has on his profile, it is asking to be parodied, in the nicest possible way, of course.

Tom's a dude.

The background to this picture is him giving a paper on his current project, the digitisation and cataloguing of the James Madison-Carpenter wax cylinder archive. JMC came to the UK in the 1930s and collected folk songs and sea shanties. Currently the digital versions of his recordings from the original wax cylinders are held at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., and Tom and his colleagues are working on producing an archive and book so each recording and its contents can be identified.

Here is the picture:




My caption: "...and Madison-Carpenter's cylinders were this big!"






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