What Edison Diamond Discs do you collect?

[NEFaurora]

That's easy. Any ones that I can get my hands on!


Tony K.

[edisonphonoworks]

It depends on my mood, I like a variety. Uncle Josh, and other comic skits, ragtime, marches, and the late 20s dance bands, like Harry Raderman, California ramblers, Merry Sparklers. I am starting to put my collection up on youtube played on period machines, I put up some diamond discs played on My A-150. I do like the classical Edison selections, as they seem to have more realism than any acoustic recordings ever made. Is the American Concert Orchestra recordings, made with the 125 foot horn, I have some late classical Diamond Disc acoustics, that almost sound like a modern recording in some respects. I am particularly fond of how the Diamond Disc reproduces the sound of a violin, and it is my understanding that the DDs are actually real violins and not the Stroh kind.

[johnwilla]

Keyboard music, violin music (Albert Spalding) Andre Benoist, etc.