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Swell idea but im guessing someone would want royalties. money would make it work but really how many would buy 78s?a few hundred?thousand? a great underground basement recording genius would be neato! id stir the toxic heated shellac brine,i already work with cement .

Idea ... a post of your beloved broken discs cyclinders etc would catch on.

New shellac records from Henry de Winter and the Bratislava Hot Serenaders would be awesome:

(Double-click the video above or click this link to go to the video on YouTube.)

Louis

Who sells Vincent Giordano on record? I thought there were some new cylinders made about 20 years ago.

Victrolacollector wrote:Who sells Vincent Giordano on record? I thought there were some new cylinders made about 20 years ago.

That was "Electrophone", a cylinder record business owned by the Valentis (APSCO) and Peter Dilg. They initially put out brown wax records, then resin records. I don't think they've made any records in a very long time.

I had Vince signing my copy of 'Turn on the Heat' a couple years ago. All Electrophone cylinders were actually manufactured by Duncan Miller (= Vulcan). He sold many similar titles under his own label in England back then, I think it was 'New Empire Record'.

52089 wrote:

Victrolacollector wrote:Who sells Vincent Giordano on record? I thought there were some new cylinders made about 20 years ago.

That was "Electrophone", a cylinder record business owned by the Valentis (APSCO) and Peter Dilg. They initially put out brown wax records, then resin records. I don't think they've made any records in a very long time.

Yes; I have a couple of Vince Giordano Electrophones in my collection: they originally used a rather noisy red vinyl, then a somewhat better black vinyl...

Bill

I recorded VG Nighthawks in 2002 on cylinder at the Cajun in New York City. Again the original cylinders are lost in Upstate New York somewhere. However I do have a video of it, and got to transcribe one or two recordings before I left. Interesting fact Bill Klinger notes in his paper on cylinders that in 1901 4 times more Edison wax cylinders were sold than Victor discs! Electrophones Turn on the Heat is a great recording, recorded electrically It is announced Royal Society Jazz Orchestra. The molds for those were just like a Blue Amberol one.

If you were going to recycle records for the shellac, you would have to sort them out for the different types of shellacs used in them.

That's a good point.

howardpgh wrote:If you were going to recycle records for the shellac, you would have to sort them out for the different types of shellacs used in them.

Doubt it. They didn't sort them back during wartime record drives. Just melt it all down again.