From: "John Beamish" 

I think you're right.  There was a *very* scratchy (probably from --
originally -- an Edison cylinder) recording on the CBC several months back
that (iirc) was said to have been made by the last castrato.

"Ellen K."  wrote in message
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> I think the last ones died in the early 1900's.
>
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:38:36 -0700, Alan Cairns 
> wrote in message :
>
> >On 22/10/03 10:00 AM, in article
4jddpvsei7cu3noo0c2kr2cvaavnelf15p{at}4ax.com,
> >"Ellen K."  wrote:
> >
> >> Check out music sites, you can purchase
> >> recordings of castrati.
> >
> >Can you really? I thought the practice had died out 200 years ago. I
would
> >just love to have heard Farinelli.
> >
> >Alan
>

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