#edison cylinders

[kaccvcate]

Here's a playlist where you can hear all the cylinders we found (except for one which is too rare to be online.) Edison cylinders were used to record sound from the 1890s to the 1920s, more or less. Warning for old timey racism in a couple of em. If anyone reading this wants to buy some cylinders, hit me up.

[qupritsuvwix]

Mystery recordings will now be heard for the first time in about 100 years

The New York Public Library recently received a machine that will read cracked and scratched wax cylinders — which include some of the earli

[hypatiamoser]

Song of the day.

[heyitsmeindy]

david copperfield discourse

as a collector of antique phonographs, old 78s and cylinders, i’m more than happy to share this stuff with the public. i’ve taken some of my machines to the local museum and our store to demonstrate edison and columbia phonographs, portable gramophones, etc. to people that haven’t seen these machines, and it’s really neat to be able to share this history with people. But, Mr. David Copperfield owns six edison cylinders with the only known recordings of Harry Houdini’s voice and hasn’t released full digitally archived copies of each cylinder! Only bits of two cylinders are publically accessible online, don’t you think that something this rare should be shared publically? the voice of one of the most important names in magic history is sitting in a museum doing nothing. of course preservation is important, and having them in a safe place like a museum is great, but only playing snippets of these cylinders isn’t quite good enough. Wax cylinders don’t last forever, someday these could end up lost again, we don’t know! a fire could ravage the building and houdini’s voice would be gone forever! I think we need more than just the single copies in a museum, we need copies that are gonna last so future generations can hear houdini’s voice. share his tiny voice with everyone, like UCSB’s cylinder archive. I think we deserve to hear every single bit of his voice a hundred and two years after it was recorded. listen, i’m just wild about archiving old recordings for the public and david copperfield could be doing a better job at it. collecting old and rare junk does no one good when it isn’t shared 

[nedison]

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My Wild Irish Rose - Walter Van Brunt (1916)

My wild Irish Rose The sweetest flower that grows You may search everywhere But none can compare with my wild Irish Rose

This sweet flower bloom’d one hundred years ago...

(via the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive)

[billy-murray]

Edward Meeker, the announcer for many early Edison cylinders, was originally a worker in the Edison workhouses. After being overheard speaking loudly to a coworker one day, he was brought in and promptly passed a speaking test, at which time he became the iconic voice announcing nearly all "Edison Rec-CORDs!" until the Edison company began printing titles on the sides of their cylinders. Meeker also recorded a few songs of his own for Edison, including the ever-popular "Take Me Out to the Ball Game".

[mikeambs]

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Edison wax cylinder recordings from 1909.