Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 06:35:56 -0600 From: russhanson <russhanson@grantsburgtelcom.net> Subject: Re: Dictaphone cylinder machine access Message-ID: <4e7f7a4d093634f57fa90572604816a6@grantsburgtelcom.net>
On 2023-02-15 12:21, Eva Harvey wrote:
> 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:
>
>> 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.
Thank you for the information. I haven't seen the Dictaphone media
yet -- it is supposed to be arriving next week for our checkout. I
think it may be a dicta-belt rather than a cylinder according to the
person having it. When I actually get it I can see what we need. It
appears that the Dictaphone company moved into some kind of belt media
between the old cylinder and magnetic recordings.
Thanks
Russ Hanson
Obsolete Media Lab