Great job! I have a 1905 model that needs a "little" love. Can you suggest someone in the Montreal area? If not, any honest restoration expert will do. Thank you!
These cylinders were Blue Amberol and an early plastic type material, not wax. They could stand up to a diamond needle. I haven't seen exactly how the tracks were made. Great question. The difficulty of making cylinder records was what ultimately did them in.
@@LyneisFilm The production of Blue Amberol cylinders was a pretty complicated process. First the selections were recorded on wax blanks (directly, from 1912 to late 1914; then, as a cost-cutting measure, they were dubbed from Diamond Disc recordings); the blanks were then dusted with graphite, to make them conductive, and placed in an electroplating tank, from which matrices were extracted to make sub-masters, and eventually the final molds (they had to pay attention to the contraction of the wax at each stage, so the final product would have the proper thread pitch). Finally, the molds were placed in steam-heated presses, where a pneumatic rubber bladder pressed the celluloid tubing into the grooves. Was this the end? No: they still had to fill the celluloid shell with a plaster core, and machine it so it would fit the phonograph properly. By the mid '20s, demand for cylinders plummeted: some late Blue Amberols were only pressed in batches of a few hundred.
Amazingly, some Blue Amberol cylinders were made as late as the 1950s: these were special instructional records for stenographers, made to be played on the late 'Ediphone' or 'Voicewriter' dictation phonographs, and used a different thread pitch than the old entertainment records.
Hi, I like the way You speak English👍 Even a non-native can UNDERSTAND You Man😀 A question : is it from 1911 or 1915 ?? And how do You know that ? Thanks in advance❗
This model phonograph was manufactured from about 1911 to 1915. From some family records and it’s serial number we think it was purchased around 1915, but there is some uncertainty about that. I am glad that you enjoyed the video. It has about 400 views, while my squirrel video has 1.6 million views.
@@LyneisFilm Hi Claude, thanks for the information🕰️❗ Well, now that You have written about views.... I also mention something : I make very special retro-vintage videos🎥. Sometimes I work about 50 ❗ hours 🕰️ on a 4-minute clip and it has only 500 views after weeks😭 . But this one , made for Lionel Richie - ua-cam.com/video/KHQ1WwlMmHI/v-deo.html , has had more success😀 Anyway I am rather for quality....In this modern world if someone imitates farting in a supermarket, he gets 20,000,000 views in 2 minutes' time....But this is not our style, right ?😀😀 Long live RETRO AND VINTAGE❗ All the Best to You from Hungary🇭🇺
Glad you restored it,
Thanks, it was worth it in the end.
Nice job bringing it back to life.
Thanks for watching. These Edison Phonographs are definitely less popular than Squirrels! Both projects were fun.
Excellent, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great job!
I have a 1905 model that needs a "little" love. Can you suggest someone in the Montreal area? If not, any honest restoration expert will do. Thank you!
this is very cool Claude!
Yeah, a comment. LOL.
I would like to see the machine that makes the phonograph discs. nice job.
These cylinders were Blue Amberol and an early plastic type material, not wax. They could stand up to a diamond needle. I haven't seen exactly how the tracks were made. Great question. The difficulty of making cylinder records was what ultimately did them in.
@@LyneisFilm The production of Blue Amberol cylinders was a pretty complicated process. First the selections were recorded on wax blanks (directly, from 1912 to late 1914; then, as a cost-cutting measure, they were dubbed from Diamond Disc recordings); the blanks were then dusted with graphite, to make them conductive, and placed in an electroplating tank, from which matrices were extracted to make sub-masters, and eventually the final molds (they had to pay attention to the contraction of the wax at each stage, so the final product would have the proper thread pitch). Finally, the molds were placed in steam-heated presses, where a pneumatic rubber bladder pressed the celluloid tubing into the grooves.
Was this the end? No: they still had to fill the celluloid shell with a plaster core, and machine it so it would fit the phonograph properly. By the mid '20s, demand for cylinders plummeted: some late Blue Amberols were only pressed in batches of a few hundred.
Amazingly, some Blue Amberol cylinders were made as late as the 1950s: these were special instructional records for stenographers, made to be played on the late 'Ediphone' or 'Voicewriter' dictation phonographs, and used a different thread pitch than the old entertainment records.
Hi, I like the way You speak English👍 Even a non-native can UNDERSTAND You Man😀 A question : is it from 1911 or 1915 ?? And how do You know that ? Thanks in advance❗
This model phonograph was manufactured from about 1911 to 1915. From some family records and it’s serial number we think it was purchased around 1915, but there is some uncertainty about that. I am glad that you enjoyed the video. It has about 400 views, while my squirrel video has 1.6 million views.
@@LyneisFilm Hi Claude, thanks for the information🕰️❗ Well, now that You have written about views.... I also mention something : I make very special retro-vintage videos🎥. Sometimes I work about 50 ❗ hours 🕰️ on a 4-minute clip and it has only 500 views after weeks😭 . But this one , made for Lionel Richie - ua-cam.com/video/KHQ1WwlMmHI/v-deo.html , has had more success😀
Anyway I am rather for quality....In this modern world if someone imitates farting in a supermarket,
he gets 20,000,000 views in 2 minutes' time....But this is not our style, right ?😀😀 Long live RETRO AND VINTAGE❗ All the Best to You from Hungary🇭🇺