Hello everyone. This is my first Thomas Edison Diamond Disc content in a decade! My last Diamond Disc video and blog entry were posted in May of 2015. Incredible how quickly ten years can fly by. This is "American Fantasie" by The New York Military Band. The track is a patriotic medley featuring "Hail Columbia", "Swanee River", "Dixie", "Columbia, The Gem Of The Ocean" and "The Star-Spangled Banner". It dates back 109 years into the past. The song was recorded on April 18 and/or 20 and/or 21, 1916 (data varies), and the record was released on June 08, 1916 and again in October of that year (Catalog number: 50358 and Matrix number: 4671-C-6-17). I am going to play the record on an Edison Disc Phonograph Model C-150 that was manufactured some time between 1915 and 1919.
Many more mechanical recordings are on deck for the very near future.
My first photograph with a Diamond Disc record in close to a full decade:
Video:
The url in case the video does not embed properly: https://youtu.be/IjmpEGbUtCI
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