Scot, in a perfect world you would own a museum for these wonderful old machines. I can imagine you giving history lessons to groups of school children. I’m glad you are keeping alive the knowledge of how these machines operate. My grandkids don’t even know how to dial a phone. How soon we forget! Thanks for another great video.

It's great that you are preserving this for future generations by taking such good care of it and learning so much about it.

I could listen to a whole hour of this! Have more cylinders? More, more, MORE! 🎉

Can you imagine how excited people were to be able to do this in their homes! Thanks Scott.

Such a fascinating piece of history. Thanks,Scott.

Fascinating! Learned something new today..thank you for sharing. Good problem solving skills 👏 too! Blue painters tape and electrical cords to the rescue once again. Essential household items.

How interesting! Thank you for showing us this lovely old machine.👏🏻👏🏻💕

Always a delight when you do a deep dive into, well, anything, but I particularly enjoy the old phonographs and radios. Your Rube Goldberg apparatus for that horn was glorious! I loved your determination to play that disc for us, and it was worth all the effort. Looking forward to hearing more, and thanks so much!

That massive horn is for when you want to turn it up to '11', lol!... It's uncanny how much you remind me of my late father when he would be explaining antique radios, etc. to me... Of course I miss him terribly, so listening and learning from you is very comforting and nostalgic... Thank you, Scott, for sharing this with us!... xoxo

Thank you Professor Scott❤

Beautiful ! thank you for sharing Scott🎩🎩 you can also hear those people talking and singing on those back then , When I heard one guy I was so scared my feet went COLD😲😲😲😲 !

Wow! So interesting Scott. Very impressed with your knowledge about so many different things. Thanks for sharing so I can stretch my brain cells as well 🥰!

Fantastic to see it working, wonderful lesson Scott. You should hang up the picture of the two little girls, they look nice in your home.

McGiver would be so proud of you! Fun educating and entertaining video, thanks Scott.

It was cool to see you get that old machine working. The fix with the amplifying horn was what my Mom would call hinkey-doo! Love it! Maybe you could use a old nylon stocking if that belt breaks just make sure you get the seam straight like the gals in the thirties had to. Fun show!

Love that porch rug!

Very interesting. Thanks Scott 😁👍🏻.

CrazyK will be excited for this!! We have an Edison player with some cylinders!!

Hey Scott 😊

TY this was very interesting to hear about and listen to. We have come a long way since then in the recording of music.

My Grandmother was born in 1906. Her mother was born in 1877. I'm sure my Great Grandmother more than likey listened to one of those. :)

23 Skidoo! Keep Cool with Coolidge!

This was so interesting,let's hope we all work so well after a hundred years or so.👏😀👍

As a long time collector of cylinder players / phonographs, I enjoyed this visit at the OCS IMMENSELY…Very informative…Thank you, Scott!

BRAVO SCOTT 🙌🙌🙌

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Thanks for showing how it works. Sounds great!

Quite interesting! Thanks for all your efforts!

I am cracking up Scott now we will have to call you MacGyver!!😂🎶I 💙how you jerry rigged the horn to make the music play.🎷🎼it was worth the wait. Thanks for sharing 🎉

Reminds me of a Downton Abbey episode when they hauled out the old victrola!

I absolutely loved this! Thanks Scott!

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You are really amazing 😊

This was so interesting. If I were still a school principal, I would ask you to come present this to my students. It’s so important to preserve our cultural history, to show students how their music and technology evolved and you make it interesting and accessible to everyone. With the vast amount of cultural history, music and practical science in that smart mind of yours, I would collaborate with you and encourage you to be a regular docent at my school, using music to make science and history come alive. I’m sure weccould write a grant to fund your presentations so I could pay you for your expertise and allow you to purchase what you need. Wouldn’t that be fun?😊

I was dancing a bit in my chair!

That is an awesome demonstration. I am impressed with your knowledge and enthusiasm for detail.😊

The Edison lab, factory, home and burial site are all in West Orange, not east. The Edison Battery Factory, directly across the street from his lab (now museum) are now luxury apartment lofts. The town has tried to knock it down numerous times, year after year, but Edison was going through his concrete phase when he had the factory built and that thing ain't going nowhere. I have seen that structure eat two wrecking balls. So, one day the townsfolk all said " F-it. Turn it into luxury housing! All of the lower income families from this side of town are gonna love it!" Don't forget Edison and Ford were besties, in both business and pleasure. They enjoyed each others company so much they purchased adjoining vacation homes in Florida. It is said Edison was a prominent catalyst in encouraging Ford to invent that Model T he kept talking about. I wouldn't doubt that there may have been more than a few purposeful crossovers between the inventors. The Kingsford BBQ briquets we still use today first came from the wood scraps found on the floor where the Tin Lizzies were carved at the Ford factory. They all intertwine at some point!

Amazing! How'd you ever learn all that stuff?

I am amazed at your knowledge of these marvelous machines! How on earth did you learn about them? Thanks for sharing!

Great video Scott. If you need any parts for any of those players, let me know. I have all of it if you need any they're yours. Thanks for sharing.

ah scott -- youre just from another century

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What a fun video! I have a turn of the century German talking machine that I enjoy listening to. It’s fun finding shellacs to play. Buying the needles by the bulk, not so much. Is it true you should change them every full play or two? Love your content!

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Mine weren’t alive.