About this minute
- Title
- Recording Angels - Wax Works Part 1
- Creator
- Aleks Kolkowski
- Performer
- Ensemble SPOK
- Year
- 1896 – 1915
- Location
- England
- Collections
- Collection 1
- Related resource guides
- Compositions , Gramophones
Collection 1 #24
This is the sound of live music that has been recorded in a very old-fashioned way! The music was recorded on to a wax cylinder using an ‘Edison phonograph’. Wax cylinders were the earliest way to record sound. These cylinders would be ‘engraved’ or scratched on the outside surface to record a sound. These scratches…