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I won this cylinder off EBAY. It is a nice cream-colored 5" cylinder, the left end seems beveled so maybe a Columbia blank, and from how thin it is, I suspect recorded on Columbia instrument (I had to remove the limit screw from the reproducer to play this record). Anyone know the artist or song, when possibly it is recorded. Click on the link to play the video of it playing.

https://youtu.be/rKO67JbPGzo

So I have listened to this a few times and determined on my own that the song is Sweet and Low by Joseph Barnby, sung by a soprano, female singer with piano. The link goes to a video of this record playing, and you can listen to it. It is an old recording, I find this very interesting. Because of the thickness of the record, I think it was recorded on a Graphophone machine, where the recorder and reproducer can almost touch the mandrel. You can slightly hear unintelligible asides before the recording. You can also hear the remnants of a cornet or trombone recording underneath after the singing has stopped. I think this was an exhibitor recording, as the blank had been shaved probably for about 25 recordings, I had to remove the limit screw from the reproducer, for the stylus to play the record, I am very delighted with the contents. It certainly is not a collector recorded record, but a period machine owner recording, from a studio, or an exhibitor on a theater stage. It is best to listen with earbuds or headphones turned up. The seller thought the cylinder was blank. The color is interesting it is cream colored with orange tint around the spiral and a few orange spots on the cylinder. The orange spots could be sulfur in the ceresin, remains of brown wax from the previous record in the mold, melting into the light wax, when the blank was cast, or castor oil residue left over from mold lubrication.