the Edison phonograph - I did not know this

[Alpo]

Most people know - or they should know anyway - that the original Edison phonograph used wax cylinders.

 

You could record on the wax cylinders. You could buy a blank cylinder and make your own record. That I knew.

 

But if you didn't like it - just like a cassette tape - you can record over it. Well not exactly like a cassette tape.

 

You put the wax cylinder on a machine like a lathe, and you cut the grooves off, so you end up with a smooth wax cylinder. Now you can record on it again.

 

 

[Pat Riot]

Interesting. I didn’t know about that. 
 

My Great Aunt had an original Edison Phonograph. She has a case for the tubes, much like a cassette tape case only much larger. 
Only once when I was visiting did she play some music on it. I don’t recall the song or the artist. I was probably 6 years old at the time. 

[Texas Lizard]

6 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

Interesting. I didn’t know about that. 
 

My Great Aunt had an original Edison Phonograph. She has a case for the tubes, much like a cassette tape case only much larger. 
Only once when I was visiting did she play some music on it. I don’t recall the song or the artist. I was probably 6 years old at the time. 

I hope someone in the family still has it....

 

Texas Lizard

[Pat Riot]

37 minutes ago, Texas Lizard said:

I hope someone in the family still has it....

 

Texas Lizard

No idea. That part of our family went their own way after my grandmother died. You see, my Dad was adopted and not a “real” member of that family. 
 

No great loss. 

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

57 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

No idea. That part of our family went their own way after my grandmother died. You see, my Dad was adopted and not a “real” member of that family. 
 

No great loss. 

My ex-sister and I were treated very much the same way once our Grandma died. My Mom's brother's daughter was treated like a queen by everybody on that side of the family except my Grandma. She treated us all equally.

I missed Grandma's funeral because I just didn't have the funds to get back to Ohio at the time. My ex-sister told me that the whole family gathered around my cousin saying,

"Oh poor Karen lost her Grandmother", and then looked at HER asking, "And who are you?"

Once she'd identified herself (again), it was "Oh yes, I remember something about Virginia, (our Mom), and her husband adopting a couple kids."

When I heard that, I truly wished I'd been there to set those old Hillbillies straight. 

I haven't seen any of those people in well over 30 years, and I don't miss them a bit.

[Alpo]

People are weird. I married a woman. She had kids. They became my kids. Then I divorced her. She was my ex-wife, and they were my ex kids.

 

At my mother's funeral one of these kids came over to the family section and sat down. My brother gave her a dirty look - as in "what the hell are you doing here!!??"

 

She said, "What? She was my grandma too!"

 

I myself thought she had every right to be there.

[watab kid]

yup , i knew that , we had some as well as a player , we also had the bakelite cylinders - 79rpm records and a player piano with a large selection of music rolls when i was a lid , most of it was old enough you had to be careful when handling it but it all worked in the early 60s , i was accumulating 45 rpms at the time so i didnt mess with this stuff much but my folks would occasionally - ill admit as a young person i found it interesting when they did ,