[78-L] Question 1812 Overture

[DanKj]

 And here it is, being played (and probably being obliterated) by a Home phono.  Watery sounding too, which I will blame on 
the machine as wax records are usually steady.  Amberols mostly just crumble when you look at them, so I won't buy them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMXs2dpIfKI


 Note that the first few batches of Amberols were announced, and that Ed Meeker had dropped the "Edi- SONE or SAWN or SUN" 
emphasis by 1908. I have a theory: by 1908, Edison was so deaf that he couldn't hear his name being announced at all, no 
matter how they pronounced it - so he didn't care.  Imagined conversation, circa 1900: "They're not saying my whole name, 
dammit" .. "Ah, Mr.Edison, they ARE. You just can't hear the whole thing" ... "Well, tell 'em to say the whole thing so I 
CAN hear it! "



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> The Edison studio squoze a fraction onto a 1908 wax Amberol cylinder, # 51.
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