It is hard to believe that there is absolutely no electricity to it and it is all mechanical.

Just wonderful. How far we have come in 100 years. 🌹

Museum quality. Thanks for the demonstration of Edison craftsmanship.

On a personal note, I used to sit on the banjoist's lap when I was around 3 years old. He was Fred Van Eps (1878-1960) and he used to come into my mother's coffee shop in Burbank. I wish I could say I remember him and his son Bobby, who also came in, but I was just a bit too young.

Well, it does certainly sounds more crisp than the flat discs of the same era, but with half the time length. Love it 😍

Can't stop watching videos on phonographs. So fascinating!!

It just baffles me that this is how people used to listen to music, this is just so cool.

The Victrola actually wasn’t the first “ola”. The first company that used “ola” suffix was the Aeolian piano company for their pianola.

They are wonderful Phonographs

Very interesting. I haven't seen one before. I saw the cylinder before but never the machine. Thanks !

Amazing times when you consider this was state of the art !! ♥️♥️

So Glad I found you 😊. I've been watching your video's. Love the music❤️. I'm in Philly too.

Thanks for uploading it! Sounds so good, and so full of life, I'm amazed. :) Wonderful machine

Interesting video. I just acquired an oak Amberola 50 in showroom condition so I really enjoy learning about the history of these machines. Have fun restoring your treasure!

Thank you so much, that was amazing, like being transported back in time.......incredible!!!

Thanks for sharing. I just got one as an heritage from my cousin. It looks exactly like yours ! It belonged to our grandparents. i had no idea how it works and thanks to you i will be able to look at it and try to understand …

1 song per cylinder damn son I'm spoiled.

It is so clear,I'm amazed.

Hi Scott! I never heard of or seen a music player like that before! Very cool!

This is a beautiful machine. I really love Blue Amberol cylinders. I think it's my favorite recording medium of all time.

This was recorded when Frank Buckles joined the army at 17. He died in 2011 at the age of 110. He was the last surviving American World War 1 veteran. The majority of last surviving veterans were from the United Kingdom, such as Harry Patch (1898-2009) Henry Allingham (1896-2009) and Claude Choules (1901-2011).

That was awesome! Very nice I know this video is five years ago I sure like to see the finished cleaned up version!

What a treat! Thank you!

They were geniuses to be able to do so much without electricity back than.

Oh my God they really were living in old cartoons back then

Great record!

Love it, thanks Old Curiosity Shop!

Thank you for playing first i ever listing cylinder music.

Sounds like an awesome koto jam.

How wonderful.

It's not awkward, it's just big! Clean it by taking lacquer thinner,and fine steel wool. U will keep the old varnish/stain which will seem renewed.

Increíble máquina...

This is a great record player

Unbelievable! Wow 😮

Sounds like it could be the Fred Van Epps trio. Recorded 1914. Ragtime was very popular back then.

I’ve heard that the correct way to hold those old wax cylinder records was/is to hold it on your pointer and middle fingers like this ✌️, because, like with vinyl, the music/data is etched directly into the surface of the record.

Very interesting!

i wish you would do another video o. your amberola! and yes i’ve always had a problem with a loud or un even governor, if it’s an even hum, that’s fine, if it’s loud and un even, then i’ll be mad, ive restored quite a few gramophones and phonographs, and some have been absolutely destroyed, same with clocks typewriters lamps etc. i love your amberola, one of a my gramophones had an even worse finish situation on a victor i have, it was lumpy! and dripping, and very pigmented, so pigmented it was black. i’ve almost bought an amberola twice but sold before i could get it.

An antique shop in PA had one just like this. Came with a separate cabinet with wax cylinders for $550. Should have picked it up

Btw The model 50 was 50 bucks. Like the model 30 was 30 bucks

The first record player to have a a quelling

A revolutionary invention at that time. Some years later, it's classified as toy rather than an entertaining device.

Fascinating, Scott! I’ve never seen one of these in operation. Thanks for sharing. It’s like an early version of the iPod, only better. I have to wonder though if Harry Suckle’s title might have been flyball Governor. Ha! Thanks again for sharing your knowledge!

While these are fascinating devices, the process for recording the music itself onto the cylinders seems far more impressive to me

Just picked up a 1915 Amberola 30 that's been in my family for a long time. It came with 15 cylinders and it sounds incredible, but it could use a good oiling and cleaning. Any idea where to get good advice on how to maintain these? thanks

That song is hilarious 😂😂

I have an Amberola 30 in rough shape, but it plays nicely.

There was also one Stereo sound phonograph invented at that time. Pl; show some thing about it.

That's awesome. I have the full size floor model. I believe it's named the Amberola 70. Would you happen to know if the diamond stylus is still available somewhere?

Rewatching this the Edison amberola 50 is positively tiny next to the others.

It starts in 7:32

W.O.W.

r u going to be at the Brooklyn flea tomorrow?

Assuming there is a speed adjuster knob, You've got the machine tuned ten times faster than what it should be.

7:21

Suks, I don't even hear any 808's.

Why does it actually sound good... and to think that all of this is mechanical!??

Real wax cylinder records have much much less high frequencies and much pops and clicks, for example records of Dan W. Quinn, Edward Favor and so on. :-) You may compare, they are in the internet.

7:22 - 9:45

Adjust the speed! My grandma had a Victrola, and there was a knob to fine tune the speed. Most old records were 78s. I realize a cylinder recording may be different, but it's rotating too fast and it sounds awful.

Sounds like a woman being tortured. Great soundtrack for a haunted house!

I wish we had some that were 200 and 300 years old. No the music isn’t good but the fact that it is a true time capsule where you could hear what people sounded like or thought from their own mouths and not the history books. So sad we have such a short recording history and that so many of the books have been destroyed by Caesar

When you say MAN DRILL you mean MANDREL.

Getwithit

Now do a video of the diamond dics they were the best physical madia of the time