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RE: arsclist Phonograph and cylinder auction webcast
The
cylinder seems to be a moulded cylinder and therefore probably NOT "a one of a
kind piece". But that's me being a bit of a pedant; the clip is still very
amusing. It reminds me of one of our curators (he doesn't work here any
more) who was demonstrating a cylinder player to an expectant audience of
professional audio engineers gathered around a stand that we had at an APRS
exhibition some years ago. The curator wound the machine up and was just
engaging the stylus with the cylinder (it was a 'sacrificial' cylinder) when the
motor's speed governor gave up the ghost and the mandrel ran at a furious
speed. There was a terrible mechanical grinding, the cylinder was badly
gouged, chips of cylinder flew around the room, the curator had his hand smartly
rapped by the crazed machine, he turned the air blue with some fearsome and
filthy oaths and the engineers departed guffawing wildly.
Regards
Nigel
British Library National Sound
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