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Sound Clip: Training Your Parrakeet to Talk, excerpts by Margaret Noble.
Of course you want to teach your bird to say, “take a bite,” “kiss me” and “pretty bird.” You’ll just need this 78 RPM record playing next to your bird cage twice per day.
Circa 1952.
An excellent curiosity!
There were some similar novelty records released in the United Kingdom in the 1960s. Their twist was that they were recordings of a talking budgerigar, and it was claimed other budgies would be more willing to learn from it from a person.
‘Teach Your Parrot to Talk’ CDs are released to this, but afaik they’re little better than useless in encouraging parrots to mimic human sounds.
Wonderful journey and experience.