Here compared to the size of a standard cylinder.
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| Only a few cylinders made by Peter Bacilalupi survived today. |
| This one was made by Gianni Bettini, in the brown wax era he provided special reproducers for sound improvment. |
| Clarion records were produced in England until 1923. This one could date from around 1908. |
| This is a common moulded black wax cylinder made by the Columbia Phonograph Company. |
| 1898 introduced by Columbia as 'Grand Graphophone cylinders' and one year later followed by Edison under the name 'Concert cylinder' |
| The Edison company not only produced their records in America, this is a German example of a Gold Moulded type. |
| On 2-minute black wax Edison released a special series to sell his opera contents. |
| In the Blue Amberol era, Edison continued his special series of classical and opera related recordings with the so called 'Royal Purple Amberols' |
| Several small companies in Germany also tried their luck in making their own cylinder records, so as Elektra in Germany did. |
| Several dealers re-labeled records and sold them under their own made. This French record has the 'Général Magasin' label, but is defintely made by Pathé. |
| This is the most common type of a 2-minute wax cylinder: an Edison Gold Moulde Record |
| Another very small label from Germany: Hartgusswalze Ideal |
| One of the oddest standard cylinders came from the Lambert Company of Chicago. This one is made from celluloid and has a pink dye to reduce surface noise. |
| Lambert later changed to the more common black color. This celluloid cylinder was sold with a language course. |
| The Columbia Phonograph Company gave on exhibitions the offer having poeple recorded their own voice on small cylinders, called Napkin Ring. Here compared to the size of a standard cylinder. |
| Again, in Germany the first attempts to record telephone calls were successfully made and recorded on a phonograph using large oversized cylinders to give a maximum reocrding time. |
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