Is This A Home Recording Or???

[edisonphonoworks]

First of all, looks like a Columbia blank, the machine defintately had a speed regulator problem, ie unbalance weights. This sounds like a home recording, has piano with vocal. The record sounds like it was made in a cold, room, so the compound was very hard, and the occilation you hear at the end was the stylus and diaphragm occilating, sometimes certain frequencies will cause feedback in the recorder, I have had this problem before can not explain all about it, except it happens to cold blanks. Columbia recorders, have no cup on the front of the cutter, and so they do not work as good as Edison cupped center ones anyhow.

[Chuck]

Shawn is right about that. Sometimes certain
blanks will cause the recorder to squeal a little as it's being set down on the surface.
Then once it's set down and recording the squealing stops.
Then, when it is again picked up at the
end of the recording, it will squeal again just
before the stylus leaves the wax.

This is caused from the angle at which the cutter starts to dig before the carriage arm is set all the way down. Only certain combinations of recorders, blanks, and the temperature of the blank will sometimes cause this.

As for the other odd sounds, if the recording
machine's governor has flutter in it, that goes
right on to the recording.