Where My Money Went This Week

[JerryVan]

What, no Hawaiian music?!

[Victrolacollector]

These are the titles of the 36 I bought. There are some really good ones.

762 DEAR HEART, SONG
569 BATTLE OF SAORIAGO
759 COTTON BLOSSOMS, SONG
706 RUBIN & MAID, MANDOLIN
639 VESPER BELLS, SONG
727 CREOLE BELLS, SONG
730 HONKY DORY, BANJO
686 WINE, WOMEN & SONG, BANJO
909 I WANT TO BE AN ACTOR LADY
561 RUBIN & THE MAID
536 SUNDAY AFTERNOON, SONG
714 SPANISH WALTZ, MANDOLIN
501 LONGING IN MY HEART
627 ALMOST PURSWADED, QUARTET
533 WHISTLE BIRD IMITATIONS
540 STARS AND STRIPES, BAND
722 DOWN IN THE CORNFIELD, SONG
628 SCHUBERTS SERENADE, SONG
693 FLOWER SONG, SAPRANO
589 THE JOLLY COOPERSMITH, BAND
609 MOCKING BIRD, WHISTLE
707 MOTHER WAS A QUEEN, DUET
574 McMANUS & PARROT
535 MAN IN THE MINT, SONG
586 CASEY AT DENTIST, RECITATION
776 MARSELLAISE, SONG
736 MOLLY, SONG
531 CHIMES: OLD FOLKS AT HOME
622 LEAD KINDLY LIGHT, QUARTET
518 DUET: HELLO CENTRAL
615 LADY HOTTENTOT, SONG
567 COUNTRY FAIR
506 SWEET SIXTEEN, SONG
586 STEAMBOAT LEAGING
694 ROMEO & JULIET, SAPRANO
700 HAND & CRADLE, SONG

Rich Gordon

There certainly are!

Bill

Agreed! This is the Holy Grail of Pink Lamberts, considering titles and condition. I particularly like Stars and Stripes! It would be nice to hear some of these online.

[rgordon939]

Stars and Stripes by John Philip Sousa is also one of my favorites. I don't want to play them because they have never been played and I want to keep them in that condition.

Rich Gordon

[Phototone]

Stars and Stripes by John Philip Sousa is also one of my favorites. I don't want to play them because they have never been played and I want to keep them in that condition.

Rich Gordon

If you play them with a modern set-up using a modern magnetic cartridge at very light tracking weight, there will be zero wear.

[Wolfe]

# 569 should be Battle of Santiago. I wonder if that's the same Lambert cylinder (by the American Quartet) that Allen Koenigsberg put on his flexi record years ago. I always liked it.

[wtt11]

That was fabulous! Congrats! I especially like that fresh pink~
Btw, is there any method to play them without reaming? Any machine with smaller mandrel? I'm lucky enough to have two but never have a chance to listen as I don't want to do any damage on them...

[VintageTechnologies]

Btw, is there any method to play them without reaming? Any machine with smaller mandrel? I'm lucky enough to have two but never have a chance to listen as I don't want to do any damage on them...

There sure is! Play them on a Columbia BF or some other Columbia model that has a 6" mandrel.

In reply to a previous post, I don't see how playing those allegedly unplayed Lambert records with a Model C reproducer a few times is going to hurt at all. Those Lamberts are a lot tougher than wax records and a few plays won't hurt them. I had at least a dozen nice Pink Lamberts once and I never saw any hint of visual or audible degradation playing them.

[rgordon939]

I don't think that at any time it was said that playing the Pink Lamberts would HURT them. What I did say was that I didn't want to play them because they have never been played and that I wanted to keep them in that condition.

Rich Gordon

[wtt11]

Thanks!

[Phototone]

I don't think that at any time it was said that playing the Pink Lamberts would HURT them. What I did say was that I didn't want to play them because they have never been played and that I wanted to keep them in that condition.

Rich Gordon

While I can somewhat understand your desire, for me, the whole purpose of owning vintage cylinders and discs is for the music and performance contained on them. Buying a few dozen cylinders just to keep and look at would not be an option for me. Your house could burn down tomorrow, or you could be the victim of a robbery or any other type of catastrophic event which would cause these cylinders to be gone forever, and you may have the only extant copy of them, so the music, song or contents would be lost forever, unless you make copy recordings of them.