[78-L] Question 1812 Overture

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

Other than the noticable flutter (which might have been from the playback 
machine) the recording is good.




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Subject: Re: [78-L] Question 1812 Overture

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! "



----- Original Message ----- 

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