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Darling Nellie Gray - Columbia Quartette, solo and chorus. (Columbia Phonograph Co.: 32836), [1905].
Cylinders are acoustic recordings--performers sang or played into a recording horn, not a microphone. Microphones were not in widespread use until 1924 with the advent of electrical recording.