1898 Edison BROWN Wax Cylinder Announced "At Edison's Laboratory" Roosevelt's Rough Riders March

Step back in time with me to the year 1898 as we listen to a historic early Edison brown wax cylinder from my collection recorded that year. One of my favorite brown wax cylinders, this has the delightful and elaborate announcement "Governor Roosevelt's Rough Riders March Played By The 71st Regiment Band Of New York City At Edison's Laboratory". I selected one of my Columbia "High Trunion" Model AT Graphophones to play this early cylinder. Isn't it wonderful to let our minds lapse back to a time when horses were the primary mode of transportation and their wonderful clip-clop-clip-clop sounds on the cobblestone streets were commonplace. I hope that you enjoy this early cylinder as much as I always have. May it take you back in time even for just a couple of minutes to that delightfully low tech era that is so refreshing with our stressful times of today. The slight wavering of sound that you hear is not from the phonograph but is from the cylinder. Some of my earliest brown wax cylinders, including this one, exhibit this on playback. To me the sound is just wonderful as is since it immediately tells us "I'm very old. Please appreciate me for what I am". Thanks so much for stopping in and please stop in anytime!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Edison
• Brown
• Wax
• Cylinder
• 1897
• Graphophone
• Phonograph
• Victrola
• Roosevelt
• Rough
• Riders
• Columbia
• Gramophone

[misanthropicagenda1]

lovely beautiful piece of machinary

i doubt my apple mac will still work in 113 years times

[MusicBoxBoy]

@misanthropicagenda1  Thanks for the nice comments!

[victrolaman]

Thanks for this wonderful early cylinder. For us history buffs, the introduction alone is worthy of the price of admission. Is this record at 125 RPM's ?

[MusicBoxBoy]

@victrolaman You are very welcome, victrolaman. Always nice to hear from you. I believe I had to adjust the speed of this cylinder down to about 120 rpm. I really enjoy that unusual anouncement as well. It's also neat to hear the announcer's accent for "...Played By The Seventy First Regiment Band..." as "...Played By The Seventy FOYST Regiment Band...." with a good old fashioned "Joyzey" accent! : ) Good to hear you enjoyed this and stop back anytime!

[digitalblasphemy1100]

i wish so bad you could tell us about these in some videos! tell us how you came to get them, and some history or information behind it. they are so mysterious and interesting! i love to hear the story behind something. please keep posting! i love your videos!

[MusicBoxBoy]

@digitalblasphemy1100 Thanks for your great comments. I agree with you that it is sometimes interesting to hear the story behind an early item. Perhaps in the future I will include some historical provenance with some of my videos.

[stuartcath1]

@MusicBoxBoy Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful phonographs and cylinders. I enjoyed listening to this so much. These early cylinders are a joy to listen to and truly take you back in time! Marvellous!

[spike6060]

nice piece of music i have one brown wax cal stewart uncle josh at the statue of liberty one of my favorites

[eclecticdufus]

That is one beautiful early Graphophone! A nice loud cylinder and the announcer shouting to register perhaps into several machines at once is priceless. I llove these early cylinders. I wonder if the flutter was in the original or introduced in the pantograph process? I never get over hearing sounds from what's now two centuries back.

[kirtley2010]

i wish i had that graphophone!!

[EmmetEarwax]

Right now (10-21-2011)"Archive.org" won't work right. I was in the midst of playing some piece I now can't recall when their sound went pfft. This is NOT in my laptop. I will try again on 11-1, but until then I'll explore this part of YouTube. I HOPE Archive.org will fix this botch soon.

I LOVE these lo-fi records full of needle scratch !

[digitalblasphemy1100]

@MusicBoxBoy we would like that very much! i am not a collector of specifics but a wide range of antiques and older vintage items. your viewers would love to hear you talk about the items. maybe you could do a tour of your collection in seperate parts? thanks so much and keep up the videos! i come back everyday to see if you have uploaded new ones!