Columbia AB Graphophone plays - The Yankee Shuffle - Sousa's Band - A Phoenix 5" Concert Cylinder

Here is a Columbia Model AB Graphophone playing a special 5" Concert Cylinder by Sousa's Band. The title is "The Yankee Shuffle". These 5" Concert Cylinders played exceptionally loud for their time, and this one is no exception. I have purposely used a small 10" black conical horn for this record as the sound on anything larger would be too overpowering and detract from this wonderful rendition by John Phillip Sousa's Band. The Columbia Model AB was a very unique Graphophone capable of playing both regular two minute as well as the 5" Concert Cylinders which were available for a very limited time back in the early days of the Twentieth Century. By adjusting a wing nut setting and moving the regular mandrel to its lowest setting, you could then slide the larger 5" telescoping mandrel over the smaller one so the Graphophone could accomodate the playing of the 5" Concert Cylinder. The Type AB Graphophone dates to 1901. The Cylinder I am playing is a Special Phoenix Brand Made by Paul Morris Music of Exeter, Devon, U.K.. It is a remarkably clear and loud remake of the original.

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Music

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• Columbia Graphophone
• Phonograph
• Sousa's Band
• Ragtime
• Gramophone
• Concert Cylinder

[Turkeydoodlers]

Bruce that horn was like this one one all brass, it has that same style end on it, not the bell shape. But had a tappered end like a Edison that goes into the reproducer? It also has the welded seem to along the side where the ends meet

[victrolaman]

@Turkeydoodlers When you say "That horn is like this one, all brass, it has the same style end on it, " what horn are you talking about when you say "this one"? do you have one ?

Victrolaman

[robchalfen]

how does Phoenix reproduce them? is this a pantagraphic or electrical dub, or some sort of mold casting?

[victrolaman]

@robchalfen As I am not sure about the exact process used to create these 5" Phoenix Cylnders, you should visit the Paul Morris Music website. I believe Part 4 will give you some insight into the mfg. process, if not you could leave a message and Paul will contact you direct. Thanks for watching.

Victrolaman

[peppoj]

I have a quick question about the phonograph, does the needle jump up and down in the grove or does it move left and right like a vinyl record?

[victrolaman]

Cylinder records are vertical groove recordings or (Hill & Dale) so do move up and down as opposed to side to side as in lateral groove Disc Recordings.

Victrolaman

[kirtley2010]

this is my favorite track by sousas band, even though its loud could we hear it with a large horn to hear the best sound quality, it is very tinny with the small horn

[EmmetEarwax]

I wonder how they would sound on an electricity-driven machine with electric amplifying and speaker (like a regular stereo, but built to play a cylinder record).A;ll the ones on YouTube seem to be played on acoustic wind-ups.

[EmmetEarwax]

I have 2 hill & dale Edison Records. They play reasonably well on my stereo, but the volume is not as good as a later record would have. In fact, on an older phono I had, all I could get was needle scratch ! One disk was piano pieces and the other was Ernie Jones & Billy Hare.

[Turkeydoodlers]

@victrolaman

No Bruce, the one i saw the other day all brass in the antique joint. It has the same style end as this one here but the size of a edisaon standard machine bell horn. The brass one i saw has the same non bell end as this columbia one you have, only its all brass and not painted like yours

[gmmix]

Your Columbia plays quite well for its age and the fact that its little motor has to deal with a large cylinder.  Thanks for this video.

[rweerakkody4565]

thats a big cylinder youve got there