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Video, has been taken down, and I will have a better one in it's place. Once I have the speed adjusted.

Nice video, Paul! Congrats and welcome to the wonderful world of brownies.

I just checked the pitch. Your machine is well-adjusted at 160.60 rpm. The correct playback speed for this Edison recording would be 125 rpm. This means it likely dates from late-1898 to 1900. Thus, 1899 is a good average vintage to claim. The sound quality comprises the typical characteristics of a duplicate made with a pantograph, thus the almost everywhere present overtones and pretty good volume.

Glenn Sage has a great summary online: http://www.tinfoil.com/trc-do.htm#date

I have attached the down-pitched version and tried a rough re-EQ.

Pretty nice band selection, I would say 1898-1900. Medley Overture ? Charms by the Edison Concert band. I think brown wax has a neat sound, some of them are very clear in deed some are not, they very greatly. Remember that a Gold Moulded record started life as a brown wax master, it is the improved recorder, such as I have that make somewhat of a difference in the sound from regular brown wax, to Gold Moulded. You can actually record painfully loud records with the Gold Moulded master recorder. I know some experts are going to disagree but moulded cylinders actually were used for some in house duplication for masters as early as 1894, and was used quite a bit for studio masters by about 1898, but not for the final production. Charles and Albert Wurth and Dr S were some of Edison's men.

Thanks Guys, but I am going to redo the video.

Your cylinder "A Trip Around Town" by the Edison Grand Concert Band is cylinder #105 and was made between 1897/98. It is listed on the Cylinder Preservation and Digitalization at the following link:

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/searc ... r+1%3D1016

Rich Gordon

Thank You Rich!