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I have two original Ethno-Musicology cylinders, they are home recordings made somewhere between 1901 and 1910, they seem to be recorded at 160rpm. I have photos of the cylinders and play them as well in a video so you can listen to them. For home recordings they seem quite good, and I do not see very many good antique home recordings come up for sale. I do not think I have them overpriced. Most home recordings are found moldy and beyond use, and while these have some mold spots, they are well recorded and clear.

http://members.tripod.com/~Edison_1/id24.html

Is where you can purchase them. I know I was terse about collectors shaving home recordings, but this is the truth, and happened from the 1950s-now. I think home recordings are more valuable than a commercial recording, as it really captures a family, and a history of an area. If any of you listening and looking can you tell me more about them, I would like to know more about these. These are original home recordings, recorded on original Edison recording blanks.

Hmm.

Sounds a lot like Leslie and Gottschler's 1915 song "America, I Love you".


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkHqIIJZjlo[/youtube]

Very nice performance, well recorded.

You make a good point about the rarity and importance of these early home recordings.

When I think of how many of these I shaved back in the 'seventies...

Sounds very similar! The more I listen to it, on here, the more I think it is a mandolin and Guitar, which makes it even a more remarkable recording, knowing how difficult it is just to record a guitar. I only played these cylinders once for the video. I suppose it could be as late as 1915, I am sure people used there Edison's for a long time. I seem to always have to sell the real interesting stuff. I onetime sold a collection of over 55 of excellent condition late 1890s Columbia brown wax records, I wish I could have kept, there was about 60% of them that were Dan W Quinn cylinders, and they were New York, and New York and Paris mostly, some Sousa's band Gilmore's Band,George

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/searc ... rtOrder=ia


The cylinder above I had sold in 2012 to David Giovannoni for his collection of home recordings. And Yes it was indeed America I love you. It sounds very good for a home recording, of note is the clear picking sounds on the mandolin, and the low bass strings of the guitar. I imagine it was recorded with a stock Edison home recording head. The cylinder is now located in the UCSB collection.