Year of release from "Two-minute brown wax and XP cylinder records of the Columbia Phonograph Company" by Kenneth M. Lorenz (1981).
Note:
Made by the gold moulded process.
Note:
Male voices.
Local Note:
Preservation and digitization of this cylinder funded by a donation from the Ward Irish Music Archives, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Group Name:
Columbia Quartette.
Subject:
Vocal quartets with orchestra.
Original Item Location:
Special Coll., Performing Arts - Cylinder 8232
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Peter on the sea - Fisk University Jubilee Quartette (John W. Work, first tenor; Roland W. Hayes, second tenor; Leon P. O'Hara, first bass; Charles Wesley, second bass) [i.e. Fisk Jubilee Singers]. (Edison Amberol: 978), [1912].
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.