From: Eva Harvey <eva.mattharvey@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 12:21:11 -0600 Message-ID: <CA+GwZz23ZVsjQyqhHUAKfDFCfVH_3xGF3uPoiRHbAy5VLz1KFw@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Dictaphone cylinder machine access
I think the Bennett museum has an Edison recording machine. There are a lot
of Edison machines out there. Maybe you could play and record onto the one
at the Bennett. Or maybe play it on an Edison with a digital recorder
collecting the sound. Good luck.
Eva Harvey
On Saturday, February 11, 2023, russhanson <russhanson@grantsburgtelcom.net>
wrote:
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> The Obsolete Media Lab in the Sterling Eureka and Laketown Historical
> Society in uptown Cushing, WI (NW Polk County), had a recent request we are
> trying to serve.
>
> A person has some dictaphone cylinders from the 1960s that she recorded
> personal memories on at that time. The Dictaphone or Ediphone was much
> like an Edison cylinder record player with the additional feature of being
> able to record dictation and play it back and then erase it for reuse.
>
> Do you have a working dictaphone that we could have her send her
> cylinders to be played and recorded? It may be that they would play on a
> cylinder phonograph, but the cylinders are of softer material, meant to be
> erased by shaving off the old vibrations making room for new ones -- so may
> be damaged by use on a phonograph. We don't have one to try that on either.
>
> I see some on e-Bay, but rather expensive for the little use we would
> have.
>
> Our latest acquisitions are a digitizing microfilm viewer and a 35mm
> filmstrip projector and viewer with a collection of educational filmstrips.
> We also have an 8mm/super 8mm movie film digizer that is just getting
> setup. You can keep up with us at the facebook page
> https://www.facebook.com/SELHS
> Thank you
>
> Russ Hanson
> Obsolete Media Lab Director
> Sterling Eureka and Laketown HS.
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