(Old Fokes at Home) Brown wax

female artist ???

Category:

Music

Tags:

• phonograph
• gramiphone
• ragtime
• cylinder
• 1900's

[Shelton1967]

GREAT machine! I just ran across your homepage and videos and am really enjoying the entertainment - David

[RagtimeFreak86]

Thanks david... :)

I'm glad you appreciate these treasures.

[edisonphonographs]

Very nice edison suitcase home. I believe that banner decal on the lid would place this phonograph at 1898. I have never heard a brown wax recording with a woman singer. Sounds good.

Thanks

[jazzgirl1920s]

Piano part at the end of the recording was nice. Very interesting to hear that early a recording of piano.

[ray8up]

ok... LOL i cannot stop laughing. but for real though this is a great piece of history you are SO lucky to have these waxz

[LouisLeeKH]

She sang beautifully!!!

[roguedog60]

It sounds on pitch to me, standard speed later was about 154 rpm so 120 should be right. I love the old saloon piano sound on these brown wax records. Definitely a woman even if she does sound soused. I hear the announcement as "Miss May Kelso." Women didnt make a lot of records in the 1890s, they were harder to record.

[wbuno]

Are you playing that at 120 rpm? Remember the brown wax cylinders were slower than the moulded ones.

[bearcub410]

thank you