An article about the cylinder hobby

[edisonphonoworks]

http://www.peoriamagazines.com/as/2010/ ... e-cylinder

This is from a few years ago, also Chuck Richards is also mentioned in this article. Of course as with all newspapers certainly there is some mix-ups, but it is a fun one. By the way, it has been around 10 years and Bolden is still in production, in fact last year they called me out again, to re-shoot the scene with new actors. This time we used the studio recording head to record the cylinder session in the movie, probably the only movie in which a studio cylinder recorder is used, and spiral core blanks and I am pretty anxious about when it is to be released.

[edisonplayer]

So many people I talk to have NEVER seen a cylinder record.Once a neighbor of mine saw one of my boxes with them in.At first,she thought they were containers for spices!Then I told her what they were.An amusing story I tell was when my friend Arthur Pare was still teaching music at the elementary school.He had some cylinders with him ,and he showed them to the kids in his class.He asked,"Can any of you tell me what these are?"My niece's hand shot up."I know what they are,they are tubes!My uncle has a lot of those! She's seen them,but she didn't think of them as records!edisonplayer

[benjaminh]

I have had a similar experience as edisonplayer; Many of my cylinders are on a shelf, over which hangs a repro black powder rifle. My friend thought those "tubes" were full of... gunpowder!

[edisonplayer]

This past Friday I was playing my Edison Triumph E for people at the antique center.This was part of the Art Walk in my town of Owego,NY.Several people were intrigued by it and the cylinder records with it.There was one young lady that bought a 78rpm record there.She looked at my Triumph.She told me that a neighbor got her interested in records.There's hope for our hobby yet! edisonplayer

[edisonphonoworks]

As stewards of this equipment, to raise interest, don't just share with other collectors, if you live in a nice little town, take your machine to parks and play them, especially with big outside horns. I play my machines when it is nice, out on the sidewalk on Main street, and always someone will come and listen to a machine. I also take my machine to living history gatherings, we have a threshing show , and I set my machines up, and the cylinder recording equipment. Also set a booth up at your local county fair. I have for over 20 years, and if you are one who repairs machines it usually results in some business. Hording machines for your own enjoyment, is fine but if you want the hobby to live on, share it with the general public. In my own experience they value these machine much more than most collectors do!