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Hi,

I am fairly new to the whole cylinder phonograph realm, but have obtained several Edison and Columbia cylinders recently.

How do you differentiate between the Edison black wax and Edison Wax Amberol cylinders. Also, are there both 2 min and 4 min wax Columbia cylinders? I have some Columbia cylinders that are not indestructibles and would appreciate some clarification so I don't ruin these cylinders by using the wrong reproducer.

Thanks!

I have spent quite some time making a good web page devoted to education of the different cylinders.
http://members.tripod.com/~edison_1/id16.html

Thanks.

Columbia never produced 4 minute wax cylinders. All their 4 minute cylinders are celluloid (Indestructible).

Bill

edisonphonoworks wrote:I have spent quite some time making a good web page devoted to education of the different cylinders.
http://members.tripod.com/~edison_1/id16.html

Thanks.

Thanks for the great resource Shawn. I have added the link to my "favorites."

Clay

The website was very informative. There was a lot of material that I've never seen before. Great job with it.
Harvey Kravitz

Thank You. I have had this tripod website at least back to 1997, pretty old for the web, and the counter has changed many times. I wanted to really sum up what cylinder records are. And I just realized I do not have anything about Concert records on the description of records, but it would be hard to find the wrong machine to play them on, as they only fit on concert machines anyway.