Why would anyone want to use an Edison cylinder to record it?
That's like downloading a digital file to a cassette recorder.
The Edison cylinder was invented in the 1880s. Horst Wessel Lied was written in 1929.
It was recorded from the Edison cylinder to digital. It was still widely used by people into the 30's.
But is lots to be said for cassettes that you mention. To use analog recording equipment to magnetic tape gives the purest sound provided you use quality equipment. When I was younger I could hear digital audio "clicking", it used to drive me nuts, a broken record had better sound to my sensitive ears.
But hey, if you have a quality 1929 record recording of Lied that is nice and clean and well orchestrated, please link it.
This cylinder also might have been a direct recording from radio broadcasting too. Who knows right, these fragile works of audio recordings turn up in strange places.
It just seemed odd that anyone would record a "modern" song on such archaic equipment. They had... what? Records in the 20s. They had radio. Someone had to have gone through a lot of effort to record that on an Edison cylinder.
Maybe they just wanted to honor its historical significance by preserving it on every medium possible. ?
A lot of people were poor at that time as the Jews were trying to prepare to take over the world. But by the grace of God they were fucked because NSDAP and Hitler suddenly rose to power and stopped their plans.
But apart from the fortunes and losses of history, there were thousands of Edison cylinder recorders around at the time. Such things were like internet and video games, every man used to be able to build clocks, steam engines or even automobiles from scratch. IF they had a place to do it.
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