The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/05/10908193 ... -100-years

This link appeared on Facebook Antique Phonograph Society. The device uses a laser to read a wax cylinder. I would love to have that copy of Hello Ma Baby. Pretty amazing.

Here's more about the device:

https://www.endpointaudio.com/endpoint-cylinder-machine

pretty neat. Thanks for sharing.

Can't believe anyone would be disappointed by an early commerical brown wax. That sounds pretty incredible.

52089 wrote: Tue Apr 05, 2022 9:09 pm Here's more about the device:

https://www.endpointaudio.com/endpoint-cylinder-machine

Thank you for sharing that link.

Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
The laser makes it quite resourceful to dodge the mechanical obstacles like a missing chunk. There is a machine made in France years ago, called the Archeophone, that also has mechanical adjustments to play different diameters but is based on a phonograph needle.

Thanks for that. It's very interesting...

NPR article on the Endpoint installed at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/05/10908193 ... -100-years