[TPIN] Abans phonograph-cylinder recording.

[John Kool]

I have emailed requests for help to the Menlo Park Museum
http://www.menloparkmuseum.com/




and to the National Park Service, curator of Edison materials.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/edis/home.htm







On Mar 3, 2008, at 5:40 AM, Ole J. Utnes wrote:

> 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
>
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