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On 2005-07-21 09:20, Tangaroa wrote:
Oh dammit! Jealous jealous jealous, I am!
Does it work? I just bought my first wax cylinder - have no way to play it though....
That's a very nice one...
Tangaroa - yes it plays the cylinders and it works perfectly. My parents must have had 30 songs/cylinders but when we moved nearly 25 years ago all but 2 were broken. I've got the horn as well but the thing is absolutely gigantic and I don't display it because it takes up all kinds of room.
Every time I play one of the cylinders, which isn’t too often, I’m always impressed at how good it sounds. Sure the sound is blatantly analog but after all isn’t the Edison phonograph the root of analog? The whole experience of cranking it up, dropping the tone arm and watching it work its way across the cylinder while producing that distinctive yet slightly eerie sound never ceases to amaze me! Now if I could only find the audio output jacks on the back of the damn thing I'd rip the cylinders to MP3s! :wink:
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