Flash of Fire - City Band (Vitaphone 10013) (1910?)

Rare Canadian label, Vitaphone (not the film makers) also made machines with very unusual wooden tone arms that lacked a typical reproducer (so a bit similar to a turntable).
They used Columbia masters for their records so this could be 1905, 01 etc., but pressed around 1910.

[@truesoundchris]

By the matrix number (clearly visible in the runout), this is an Argentine Columbia recording of ca. 1910-1911, and the "City Band" playing this early tango is the "Banda Municipal de Buenos Aires".

[@colonelbogeysfauxcow]

Oh that’s quite interesting that it’s from Argentina, though it being a tango does make sense. Thanks.

[@tiga4180]

This has the crisp clarity of an electrical recording, or at least a late acoustic.

[@colonelbogeysfauxcow]

I like how the instruments are quite identifiable, and that it’s very easy to listen to a single out one and just listen to it.