A Hot Time March

About this film

The Cylinder Archive [ www.cylinder.de ] release for August 2010: This lively played number by the Edison Concert Band predates the famous version by Bessie Smith by more than a quarter century. It features very distinctive ragtime influence. This Edison brown wax cylinder dates from approx. 1900/01 and was pitched to a playback speed of 140rpm. Cylinders of this era would be still copies made by a pantograph. However, an increased playback pressure applied to the source cylinder did allow a better volume. The Edison laboratories had just started to use small series of molded cylinders to be used as master source records for final pantographic copies.

Directors & creators

Edison Concert Band

Subjects

cylinder record; brown wax; edison; hot time; ragtime; band; march; medley

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