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to me it sounds like len spencer but i never heard his brother so i can't tell
in the 1890's a lot of these political cylinders where around and this speech was avalable with several companies this however looks like a edison light brown wax cylinder
its irritating how some makes have no introduction on their cylinders
i digitize cylinders as a hobby and i have digitized 12,000 cylinders so far with a 1000 from my own collection
like i said there are quite a number of makes with no introduction i then have to relie on the catalogues for extra info i found 3 bettini cylinders this way the bettini's do have a intro but they don't say the make of the cyl like edison cyl always end with edison record
with the bettini's only the artist and the piece was named i had to borrow a bettini catalogue from a friend to find them
i knew what a bettini cylinder looks like i saw several in paris at jalal's phono galerie and i suspected these cylinders to be bettini's and i was right

i also digitize discs

i would love to have a copy of your mp3 for my archive if you are willing to sent it to me than you can do so at my gmail [email protected]
i'll be eternaly gratefull if you do
its a great find in even greater quality

greetings
tino

ps you can also find me on youtube under the name tino van der zwan
i hope to see you there!

mrphonograph wrote:i found 3 bettini cylinders this way

Bettini cylinders are scarce, but the musical content is almost always disappointing. It is no wonder when you look at the content of Bettini record catalogues. His reputation is founded on the legendary artists he recorded privately for his own collection, but not on commercially distributed cylinders.