[TPIN] Abans phonograph-cylinder recording.

[Ole J. Utnes]

Edward Tarr sent me a faximile of a newspaper from Finland, Helsinki's
Hufvudstadsbladet, (no. 96, from 11.4.1890, page 2).

In this paper (that I have partly translated for Tarr from swedish
into english) we can read the following:

Among the phonograms a particular one must be mentioned: solo on
cornet a piston, played by the famous French virtuoso monsieur Arban
called "Fanfare d'Edison;"

More here:

http://abel.hive.no/trumpet/arban/edison/

What if we (included some of you on TPIN?) could go looking for this
"Fanfare d'Edison" cylinder?

Arban died in 1889. Perphaps he recorded this the year before, in
1888? Some of the recordings from 1888 have survived (here som text
indicating this):

In 1888, Thomas Edison decided to improve his phonograph using Bell
and Tainter's wax cylinder, and built his perfected phonograph. The
first specimens were offered to important people such as Colonel
Gouraud in England, Gustave Eiffel in France, etc. Other people were
called by Edison for recording worldwide celebrities such as Brahms,
Tchaïkovsky, Anton Rubinstein, etc. Incredibly, most of these
recordings survived the years and can now be heard using modern
techniques.


Ole