Wax Cylinder Recordings
TMBG's wax cylinder recordings were created on an Edison Home Phonograph-type machine. Early phonographs from 1877 until 1888 were handcranked and used thick tinfoil as the recording medium, a medium unable to do more than crudely record speech. In 1888, Edison re-invented the phonograph, producing a vastly more sophisticated machine with an electric motor powered by a wet-cell. The cylinders were now made of hard wax, which could record more complex sounds than speech, such as music. The method of recording was still acoustic, however, with no electric microphones. By the 1890s, Edison's domestic machines, such as the Home Phonograph below right, were powered by spring motors.
TMBG songs recorded at the Edison Museum on wax cylinder:
Each of these recording is prefixed with an announcement of song title, artist, and the place of recording ("Made at the Edison Laboratories"). This follows the standard convention for recordings made on cylinders in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
[edit] See also
- http://www.tinfoil.com/edison.htm - General Edison Info
- http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu - U Cal Santa Barbara's Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
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