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Heres a cylinder that i grabbed just because of its color. In person this cylinder is red in color...STRANGE!!

And another one by the International Phonograph Company. Title: Papa, Mama - Rheinländer (Orchestra)

Just went through my files and found three pictures of a North American cylinder with paper title end that went on eBay over 8 years ago. It was no. 191: Battery B March, by the Fifth Regiment Band. However, the condition was rather moldy as you can see on the small pictures.

Aaron wrote:Heres the next one.

I think that goutte de rosee would translate as "A drop of dew" or "Dewdrop".

Jim

Lenoirstreetguy wrote:I think that goutte de rosee would translate as "A drop of dew" or "Dewdrop".

Jim,

Google’s language tools agree with you, although they opt to write it as ‘dew drop’. Personally, I would lean towards the former, since ‘de’ is ‘of’, and the most literal translation (to the best of my poor knowledge of la langue française (the French language) is ‘drop of dew’.

Do you use much French in Toronto? (I’d double-checked Wikipedia to confirm my belief that French was widely spoken in Toronto, and was surprised to read that “While English is the predominant language spoken by Torontonians, many other languages have considerable numbers of local speakers, including French, Italian, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Tagalog, and Hindi. Chinese and Italian are the second and third most widely spoken languages at work. As a result, the city's 9-1-1 emergency services are equipped to respond in over 150 languages.”)

Also, in case anyone had not noticed—Aaron has been updating the first post in this thread as additional cylinders are added. Per his request, I edited the French title and added the translation—Aaron informed me last night that he would be away (with his laptop) until next Friday, although if he had internet access, we’d see him on the forum, and he requested that I watch over his cylinder post for him.

I’ve been following this thread since Aaron started it, and have enjoyed seeing everyone’s contributions so far, even though I don’t own any wax cylinders. However, in February, I was fortunate enough to be present for the recording of a wax cylinder at the MOCAPS meeting that I attended.

I look forward to seeing more of them.

— MordEth

Don't believe everything you read in Wiki French is spoken in Toronto but there is certainly a lot more Cantonese, Italian and Portuguese spoken on the streets than French, although we have a sizeable Fracophone population. Now, once one goes to Northern Ontario you will hear a lot of French and Ottawa really is quite bilingual. My spoken French is not bad once I get rolling...or after a long weekend in Montreal... but I'm rusty.

Jim

On page 1, I have uploaded an early ad showing both Excelsior "Gloria" and "Gloriosa" Concert Phonographs. I also added title and number of my concert cylinder.

What great looking machines. I especially like the Gloriosa, with the cutout in the case for the cylinder to slid on the mandrel. I can't say I've seen that design on any other machine before.
Thanks for posting them!