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52089 wrote:Is this it?

https://griffonagedotcom.wordpress.com/ ... s-of-1901/

I have to disagree with the basic assumption of the article: those cylinders don't predate stereophonic recording, they predate multitrack recording.

The Chinese cylinders are so interesting and surprising! Too bad a Columbia Multiplex 3D cylinder has not been found, only a monophonic one. Charlie Hummel has a purpose built Columbia Stereophonic recorder from around 1900. I can post a photo of this machine later, it has the studio trunnions, two of them and numbered 1 and 2 on the same carriage, two recorder nipples, and two horn connections.

Marco Gilardetti wrote:

52089 wrote:Is this it?

https://griffonagedotcom.wordpress.com/ ... s-of-1901/

I have to disagree with the basic assumption of the article: those cylinders don't predate stereophonic recording, they predate multitrack recording.

Yes, they're more like an early version of binaural recording than stereo.

edisonphonoworks wrote:The Chinese cylinders are so interesting and surprising! Too bad a Columbia Multiplex 3D cylinder has not been found, only a monophonic one. Charlie Hummel has a purpose built Columbia Stereophonic recorder from around 1900. I can post a photo of this machine later, it has the studio trunnions, two of them and numbered 1 and 2 on the same carriage, two recorder nipples, and two horn connections.

It would be great if you could post photos of that machine, with the studio trunnions! really fascinating.

Maybe this gramophone would be a candidate for my soundbox? (just kidding)

This is a Columbia dual track 200tpi recording lathe, As you can real property of The American Graphophone Co. Laboratory. It has two recording horn inlets and two studio trunnions, to take two recording heads. They used 200tpi to get a two minute dual track recording. This is taken at Union a few years ago Charley Hummel booth.

edisonphonoworks wrote:This is a Columbia dual track 200tpi recording lathe, As you can real property of The American Graphophone Co. Laboratory. It has two recording horn inlets and two studio trunnions, to take two recording heads. They used 200tpi to get a two minute dual track recording. This is taken at Union a few years ago Charley Hummel booth.

Thank you so much for the picture! How fascinating. It would be marvekous to hear more about it... If I travel back in time to about 1900 - 1910, there are stereo photos and gadgets to see them with all around, would seem very improbable that noone would translate the thought to our hearing, it is too obvious and people seemed so eager to come up with new inventions.
Well I guess this photo proves they did, whether they called it stereo and when, is another matter? For some reason it did not seem to be a commercial success (like 3-D film which seems to pop up every 30 yrs or so)