Type N 1895 Graphophone Cylinder Phonograph- www.cylinder.de

[eclecticdufus]

I love that horn! Looks like a period after-market accessory not Columbia? Amplifies the sound well. It would be great to have an early Coumbia like that that only mentions New York City instead of the later "New York and Paris." Looks like some mold about the last inch or so but it doesn't affect play.

[KarenRazer]

In this year 1895, it was the like our HD television, so imagine in 2060 when our kids will say ''Daddy it's easy as ever Thats like the first iPad when you was young, But It's the Physical - Holographic - Technology! :)

[shellophone]

@GoogleFascists: roll-operated player pianos weren't popular at the time this Graphophone was manufactured, in fact, they hadn't been invented yet!

[Discofunkytrain]

Amazing and very precious object.

Thanks !

[GooglFascists]

Good example of why player pianos were still so popular in that day.

Amazing that the records were actually much better than the machines

were to play them. Rig up a tone arm with a more modern needle

to play those old records, (the steel stylus wore the records out),

and you won't believe how great they sound!

[funguy873]

@GooglFascists so true and it happens with many devices

the recording quality is good, but the machines used to reproduce them aren't

[Vermontist]

I am so glad that there are people like you who are maintaining these wonderful artifacts. Thank you for doing so.

[Batamon1997]

What did light switches look like back then?

[phonatic]

@Batamon1997 You would usually have the switch directly attached to the socket. Try antiquesockets(dot)com for more details.

[josephgmen]

put jay z in that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cartoonmusicandfilm]

@josephgmen NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[heathovc]

@josephgmen that would start armageddon.

[frederik027]

this is my farorite video

[SwingBandHeaven]

Grat looking machine playing a wonderfully rare brown wax cylinder - excellent. THanks for sharing it.

[MrXnews]

No electricity. You wind it up (there's a large spring inside) and set down a pickup with a mica disc in it. The stylus moves up and down, moving the mica, and finally the sound is focused through the horn.

[edisonphonographfan]

wow this is 3 years older than my edison home 1898 and there was great advancements in three years aswell

[ObiWanBillKenobi]

Thanks for such a high-quality filming of this machine playing! Thank so much for using a high-quality studio microphone. Seeing that the purpose of going on Youtube or another site to view and listen to this stuff is to hear what it really sounds like, it's great that you put the effort into this video. Thanks!!

[Darkgod171990]

Was this item ever appraised?

[EnerG15]

It's about 8 years older than mine! Compared to one from 1903, you can see the great advancements in quality made in such a small amount of time!

[rweerakkody4565]

cant you people stop comparing CD and cyl;inders!!!!!!!!!!!

respect the ELDERs

[phonatic]

Full ack, but that's what people only know today. It's like comparing a candle with an LED.

[Carthsting]

@phonatic What is the candle?

[HORVATH1962]

@phonatic I would not give house room for an mp3 player or iPod but i certainly would this as she is just so beautiful a music machine. Please look after her.

[chantinginmysleep]

@rweerakkody4565 who uses cd's anymore XD

[beethsonnet]

@chantinginmysleep haha!!!!!

[Eddy2730]

@rweerakkody4565 Well said!

[coolbrian15]

Im getting a 1908 flat disk gramaphone it plays flat records however all my records are from the 1980's will those types of records work on a 1908 gramaphone or do i need to buy records from the early 20th century all i know it plays 78 rpm records

[phonatic]

In case your question is serious, no, the acoustic gramophone will only play shellac discs. The heavy weight of the reproducer and the steel needle will instantly ruin any vinyl. Also, the steel needle has to be changed after each record side or will also start to ruin the shellac records too.

[woody558]

Where did you get this?

[phonatic]

The phonograph is from a record and machine fair where many enthusiasts are gathering.

[edisonphonographs]

For such an early machine I think it plays quite well! Do you play this machine often? How many main springs are in the motor?

Thanks

[phonatic]

As far is I know there is only a single mainspring in that motor, but it's quite wide.

I don't play it that often to reduce stress on the rawhide leather gear which gladly is still intact at 100%.

[edisonphonographfan]

i dont think thats funny dont take his name in vain

[mynameisbackwards]

JESUS THAT'S ONE BIG ASS HORN

hahaha

[Raven00088888]

Its so different sound if its compare with blue Ray Disc...

[NESHero]

Why do you keep comparing these recordings with Blu-Ray?

It is a totally different thing.

[cobolsaurus]

This is like a time machine. You are listening to people playing instruments more thana century ago. Now I ask, did they produce the cylinders commercially? How did they make copies of them?

[phonatic]

Of course, this machine and the record were made commercially. This 1897 cylinder was likely dubbed using a pantograph which transcribes the source cylinder mechanically to a blank. Later black wax and celluloid cylinders were made directly from a metal master derived from master (wax) record by using galvanic reproduction methods.

[phonographedison]

would u sell it

[cobolsaurus]

Doesn't the cylinder degrade with every play?

[phonatic]

In general, yes but not more than an old 78rpm disc played on a period machine. It depends a lot on the reproducer's stylus, weight and room temperature.

This cylinder should allow several hundred playbacks which I am not going to take advantage of. :)

[Afro70s]

What an atmosphere!

[bravo45th]

I get very, very edgy when hearing stuff from old Phonographs. I don't know why people do, maybe because its freaky, its like hearing Ghost from the past but in a very freaky way.

[jimihendrix1967]

what's the name of the song? , i can't sleep without listening to this video. believe in me. 01:47 is killing me. i want to stop living when i hear that seconds....

[phonatic]

It's in the video description, go figure...

[cant7think7clearly]

Fascinating!

[payless1981]

I miss my collection of cylinder records and phonograph. I used to have a great dance record on a brown edison record from around 1900. Great to hear these vintage sounds on here.

[phonatic]

I have a fable for the the pre-1900 recordings too. You really can hear the performer's excitement coming of the horn.

[otterhouse]

I have exactly one brown wax cylinder in my collection... Thanks for posting this one!

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Rolf, Netherlands.

I am a collector of classical 78's and lp's

Click "otterhouse" above to see (and hear!)

some of my collection.

[Fuliginosus]

I bet people who had bought a lot of cylinders were really annoyed when the format changed to wax platters.

[phonatic]

The overtake by the disc was a fairly slow process. When someone bought this phonograph in 1895 he could at least obtain new 2-minute cylinders for the following 16-17 years. This phonograph was cutting edge technology in home entertainment when it was new.

[linuspop]

I love hearing the primitive sounds of a brown wax record. Thanks for putting it up for everyone to hear....

[phonatic]

I really does not get a lot more primitive than that. :)

[darksound1973]

I used to have this record. The chance of hearing a duplicate are very slim. Perhaps this is where the 50 Columbia BW I sold went???? This machine sounds pretty good, except for some tracking problems.

[phonatic]

I once bought it from a collector in Iowa who said he it came in a set of 70 BW's that he had purchased in the 1970's. It could be also the same title but a different take. A waltz has much less variations and another take would not be easy to distinguish from another one.

Sometimes, the motor lacks of power but I want to keep it the original parts together.

[RagtimeFreak86]

WOW...

what a cool horn

I've never seen one like that

very nice.... : )

[phonatic]

It's an early 1890's Columbia horn. Its last appearance was in the 1897 catalog where it was priced at $6.50 - $1 cheaper than before as the fancy new spun-bell horns became more trendy.

Will check your great videos too. :)