I'll play it on the Sears Silvertone (Columbia) unit, hopefully I won't anger the gods.
I'll play it on the Sears Silvertone (Columbia) unit, hopefully I won't anger the gods.
This a a very fast march from 1905, and was recorded by Pryor's Band in November 1908 - just about 96 years ago. Should be about the correct vintage.
This a a very fast march from 1905, and was recorded by Pryor's Band in November 1908 - just about 96 years ago. Should be about the correct vintage.
Noice! Grandma & Grandpa Duck would be proud to hear it!
Edit: I have no clue if those needles were ever used before.
Noice! Grandma & Grandpa Duck would be proud to hear it!
Edit: I have no clue if those needles were ever used before.
Probably not - you get one play from a steel needle, and they tended to be discarded as they were used. I'll give one a try.
They're nice and sharp - you can tell they're from the proper era, the modern ones aren't like that.
Probably not - you get one play from a steel needle, and they tended to be discarded as they were used. I'll give one a try.
They're nice and sharp - you can tell they're from the proper era, the modern ones aren't like that.
Sample: https://vid8.poal.co/user/stultusavem/6VJfIXe
the needles you sent
TIL @Stupidbird has no talons
>the needles you sent
TIL @Stupidbird has no talons
Silly alien. Shellac records need soft steel needles so they don't gouge the records. Dragging superior B.I.R.D. claws over the grooves would destroy them.
Silly alien. Shellac records need soft steel needles so they don't gouge the records. Dragging superior B.I.R.D. claws over the grooves would destroy them.
Silly alien. Shellac records need soft steel needles so they don't gouge the records. Dragging superior B.I.R.D. claws over the grooves would destroy them.
Puny humans and their silly technology based on boiled insect secretions. They will be too easy to conquer when my people arrive.
>Silly alien. Shellac records need soft steel needles so they don't gouge the records. Dragging superior B.I.R.D. claws over the grooves would destroy them.
Puny humans and their silly technology based on boiled insect secretions. They will be too easy to conquer when my people arrive.
We've been waiting and watching for years. The network is beginning to think you will not arrive.
We've been waiting and watching for years. The network is beginning to think you will not arrive.
I've seen video of a guy who scanned LPs, then had the computer decode the bumps and groves from the LP and output the music it would have produced on a record player.
I've seen video of a guy who scanned LPs, then had the computer decode the bumps and groves from the LP and output the music it would have produced on a record player.
Laser scanning is how some of the more delicate things are handled. Visual scanning is easy enough to do for home users, it's also useful for certain artifacts from last century like county fair audiographs - people spoke into a transducer and a pen drew the wave on a paper. Don't know if that's what they were called, but I've seen some of these demodulated, and voices from the void speak to you after 100 years.
Laser scanning is how some of the more delicate things are handled. Visual scanning is easy enough to do for home users, it's also useful for certain artifacts from last century like county fair audiographs - people spoke into a transducer and a pen drew the wave on a paper. Don't know if that's what they were called, but I've seen some of these demodulated, and voices from the void speak to you after 100 years.
That is neat, for the audiographs, did they originally have a way to read/playback the sound or was it just a way to capture a recording and they had no idea it would ever be heard as recorded?
That is neat, for the audiographs, did they originally have a way to read/playback the sound or was it just a way to capture a recording and they had no idea it would ever be heard as recorded?
It was just one of those geegaws you got at the fair. Speak into the device, it puts the audiogram on a paper and you take it home as a souvenir. There was no way to play them back.
It was just one of those geegaws you got at the fair. Speak into the device, it puts the audiogram on a paper and you take it home as a souvenir. There was no way to play them back.
What speed are those records? I threw out about +/-100 of them last year. They were something my mother had, stored away I think they came from her Aunt who lived circa ~1880-1960. They were pretty worn, some warped a bit from the heat in attic storage. I played a few of them back in the 1970s to hear what they sounded like... Rudy Vallée like music ... a bit scratchy and monotone. No titles I recognized. I think they were 33 1/3 RPM IIRC.
What speed are those records? I threw out about +/-100 of them last year. They were something my mother had, stored away I think they came from her Aunt who lived circa ~1880-1960. They were pretty worn, some warped a bit from the heat in attic storage. I played a few of them back in the 1970s to hear what they sounded like... Rudy Vallée like music ... a bit scratchy and monotone. No titles I recognized. I think they were 33 1/3 RPM IIRC.
The one on the table is 78 1/8 RPM - it only has one song on it as it's a single sided record. priced at 60 cents. I don't know when this one was sold (We'll say 1913 since that's the earliest the government has records for) it would be about $20.00 today.
There were 33 1/3 pressed about this same size called EPs, LPs aren't much bigger. If they were warped, they were vinyl, shellac tends to crack.
The one on the table is 78 1/8 RPM - it only has one song on it as it's a single sided record. priced at 60 cents. I don't know when this one was sold (We'll say 1913 since that's the earliest the government has records for) it would be about $20.00 today.
There were 33 1/3 pressed about this same size called EPs, LPs aren't much bigger. If they were warped, they were vinyl, shellac tends to crack.
I had them in the neighbor's barn sale for a few years priced at $1 each, didn't sell any of them.
These were most likely 78 speed too. 33 1/3 was for later/modern albums I guess, 45s for singles, 78 for the old stuff. I still have an old 1950s or early 1960s hi-fi (that I haven't used in 40 years) with those 3 speed options - but uses a sapphire needle cartridge IIRC.
I had them in the neighbor's barn sale for a few years priced at $1 each, didn't sell any of them.
These were most likely 78 speed too. 33 1/3 was for later/modern albums I guess, 45s for singles, 78 for the old stuff. I still have an old 1950s or early 1960s hi-fi (that I haven't used in 40 years) with those 3 speed options - but uses a sapphire needle cartridge IIRC.
Hmm. Yeah, unfortunately records tend to be worthless, or collectible. The one one the table was given to me in a batch similar to what you had. They had to go, do you want them, etc.
Hmm. Yeah, unfortunately records tend to be worthless, or collectible. The one one the table was given to me in a batch similar to what you had. They had to go, do you want them, etc.