Nice piece of audio nostalgia even if it is the CYLINDER TUBE CASE ONLY
When we moved house a few years back, the brittle cylinder was unfortunately destroyed so I am offering just the EMPTY CASE for someone who is "into" collecting OLD audio gear
The Amberol range of cylinder recordings began production in 1908 and had finer grooves than previous cylinders.
Running speed was 160rpm
Cylinder length is 4.5" x 2" diameter
Tracks per inch: 200
Play time was a massive 4 minutes!
EDISON AMBEROL RECORD - Casing Only
Contents (marked on the top) WERE:
# 67
Sing Me To Sleep
Soprano & Tenor (Miss Chapman And Mr Anthony - no surnames used!)
COSMETIC CONDITION:
Pretty amazing for a cardboard tube over 100 years old!
NO serious discolouration, Green graphic print
Nice Green graphic of Thomas Edison on one side of the tube
Draconian instructions about the legal use of the cylinder, multi-national patents etc
Love the top cap which clearly says
"THIS RECORD SHOULD RUN 160 REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE, NOT FASTER OR SLOWER"
Seems quite a hopeful instruction to me as the typical playback machines were hardly capable of "precision speed control"
Don't forget this type of recording was right at the forefront of "current" late 19th Century audio technology, no electronics at all, totally reliant on mechanical motion! Actually it seems that Edison became bored with these machines he had developed and instead moved onto inventing another very "high tech" device, the incandescent lightbulb!
The cylinder case is NOT squashed or mis-shapen in any way.
The top cap fits nice and tightly and has not fallen apart
To maintain the current condition as much as possible, I have now placed the cylinder within a sealed clear plastic packaging to protect it from the environment.
