Less common types of Edison CYLINDERS info?

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Less common types of Edison CYLINDERS info?

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Hoping to hear from somebody that is knowledgeable on the less common types of Edison CYLINDERS. There are afew I was curious about but one would be the "SPECIAL" series.

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If memory serves correctly, the Specials were included (six, I think) when one bought a combination attachment kit to convert a 2 minute machine to 2-4 minute machine.

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Start here. There are other similar threads if you search the board.

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Not Edison, but there’s those extra long Columbia cylinder format. I don’t know how rare they are, but those and something to play concert cylinders on are the only format machines I still don’t have.

Then there are the Busy Bee records that are slightly too big to play on a regular machine. You have to play it on some sort of modified Columbia Q (not sure if other busy bee models are out there)


I think Pathé had their own large cylinder format also?

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I have entered the world of Concert cylinders, I have an Edison Concert, (well it is more of a duplex as it can play both small and large cylinders.) and I finally got that AG working too! When did Columbia stop making 5" cylinders, and Edison. I have an Edison recording by Byron G Harlan circa 1903-1904 on Concert format, and those were supposed to be dubbed form Gold Moulded records via pant-o-graph, but it is louder and clearer than any Gold Moulded I have heard.
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Columbia AG, that I never thought would play, now plays.
Columbia AG, that I never thought would play, now plays.
Edison Concet (more of a duplex, capable of playing and recording both kinds of cylinders, I have the flat carriage for playing standard records too, and a carriage for accepting trailing type, advance ball studio recorders.  The case is new, made by a friend of mine.  The bed plate, I need to restore.
Edison Concet (more of a duplex, capable of playing and recording both kinds of cylinders, I have the flat carriage for playing standard records too, and a carriage for accepting trailing type, advance ball studio recorders. The case is new, made by a friend of mine. The bed plate, I need to restore.

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