Issler's Orchestra - Fifth Regiment March (1889)

[@BrucesPhonograph]

Notice the muffled sound in this recording! It's because it was dubbed from what is known as a white wax cylinder. These proceeded the brown wax cylinders of the 1890's. White wax cylinders were not made of an insoluble soap composition as were brown wax cylinders, but were actually made of wax, which is what gives them their muffled sound. Edison's chemist around 1890, developed the brown wax formula which gave phonographic cylinders a sharper sound as well as better fidelity. A considerable number of these brown wax cylinders of the 1890's can be found and heard on U-tube.

[@EarlyMusicRecordings]

Thank you for the information!

[@sungunewssgn9782]

Lively and cheerful, you get a feel for the mood and the flair of that time. The funny-bright march is very reminiscent of the Cologne Carnival. I love it!

[@EternaResplandiente]

Just here listening to some classics.

[@waderaney7]

Excellent

[@nibyafternight1983]

what a great tressure

[@waderaney7]

Good song,nice n clear

[@BASEDSAKRI]

Mary had a little lamb!

[@waderaney7]

Thank you MR Barrett,now I do know,after I had put it all in one mail😃

[@bruceleehace20anos17]

The best of 1889

[@bensfractals43]

are those berliner records

[@solinus7131]

The picture shows berliner records (or similar) but the audio came from an edison cylinder since the uploader accidently chose the wrong photo

[@bevisfaversham2669]

what info do you have that this record is 1889 or even by isslers orch ?

[@JamesIrwins78s]

Well there are multiple places of which this could be discerned from. The color of the wax is a good indication for one, if it's colored white it usually means that it was recorded pre-1891, and on top of that since there were so few recorded in those days the Edison company and many like it kept a discography of what was being recorded, who it was by, and when it was recorded. Hope this helped.

[@ruedigerlessel3182]

Who is the composer?

[@JamesIrwins78s]

Bettie M. McVeigh, whom of which composed it for the piano in 1876. Also I tried to research her and the only success I had in that endeavor was that she composed another song in the year previous to this one by the name of "Belle Haven Waltz".

[@Henry-ns4jo]

Whose still listening in 1894?

[@hoddtoward3221]

1894 before gta 6

[@waderaney7]

This with other songs/instrumental are 👍,so why did Music Hall 🌟 refuse to record songs,when clearly they would have been good ones too? Just snottiness,toffeenosed people that is who,Gus Elen has gone down in history as a recording artist,so the rest could have done so !,So many recordings in 1890 onwards,who actually did listen to them,does anyone really know??☺

[@andrewbarrett1537]

Wade Raney Dude, one question at a time, please. The way you phrased this makes it very hard to figure out what you are asking and thus what to answer. The best I can guess as to 'who listened to these?' was curious patrons of 'phonograph parlors', which were popular from the late 1880s through around 1905 or so. These were traveling (sometimes fixed) operations which were basically a small building, a tilt up or storefront, that housed a number of coin operated photographs with stethoscope-like 'listening tubes', thru which the public could, for the first time, hear the sounds of music or speech rendered via the newfangled phonograph. This was before most folks had phonographs at home, and the gadget was still a novelty. By the late 1890s it started catching on more and more as a home entertainment device, and when Edison began actually molding cylinders in 1902, instead of reproducing them pantographically, or else recording multiple copies via dozens of machines and hundreds of takes of a tune (the old method of commercial production), the phonograph's path as a home entertainment device was set. the early commercial use, by the way, is why so few pre 1900 or pre 1895 cylinders exist today: they were soft wax that wore out easily and was frequently destroyed by mold, and most of them were literally played to death and worn down until barely any music could be discerned. A shame, but st the time the technology was too new for people to realize they were making and using historical documents for future generations, especially when it came to popular music.