The first commercial medium for audio recording and playback used a wax cylinder. Similar to the phonograph record that later followed, sound waves were turned into mechanical vibrations that ...

Credit and record deals have typically been hard to ... Vasnier performances would have been heard on the wax cylinders installed in coin-operated jukeboxes. Martin’s research found that the ...

Mr. Grossman had two wax cylinder records ... so that the results are indeed a triumph of recording. The striking features of Booth's presentation are the richness of his resonance, the beauty ...

A wax cylinder containing the oldest recorded country ... Now a specialty label, Archeophone Records, has restored and released the record. Video by Ellenoor Shameli We find out what we gained ...

Mapleson set out in 1901 to put on wax live performances ... out by the time Mapleson gave up recording (in 1903) and stored them away. The dust-covered cylinders were unearthed in 1937, shortly ...

invented the tin foil phonograph – a machine that recorded sound by indenting a sheet of tin foil into a groove in a cylinder. A later wax version was the version on which the recordings we know ...

Lugging heavy audio equipment, Magid traveled through parts of today’s Belarus and Ukraine (then territories of the Soviet Union) making wax cylinder recordings of Jewish folk music ...