1905 EXCELSIOR RECORD 78rpm Talkophone Label Played On Victor Type D Phonograph

[@nickev96]

Imagine not having access to music unless someone played it for you or you played it yourself. This invention was truly a gift. Music makes our lives so much better.

[@8jaime8]

The problem is that it reduced the number of people who can sing, play, or read music. People became passive listeners, whereas once everyone was expected to be able to sing and play an instrument of some sort.

[@cheesemanthe2nd]

​@@8jaime8womp womp

[@ringo8410]

Pretty incredible that almost 120 years later, we can listen to this tune on KZbin on the internet.

[@muzhikforchaplin1203]

Every time I think that the 1900's are gone forever I want to cry... actually

[@grammofon4457]

Same. everything that has happend was i the 1900s

[@swegboii6447]

Ok coomer

[@tdiamonds23ice82]

@@swegboii6447 uhh, I don't think he's a boomer, he might be older than that.

[@MathsOP]

@@tdiamonds23ice82 ik its an old comment but that wasnt the joke.

[@tdiamonds23ice82]

@@MathsOP ok

[@yolandajohnson8685]

love that vintage sound. in 1905, my great grandmother was 7yrs old

[@haylabox1662]

im 14 and my great-grandmother would have been probably 5 in 1905. She was either born around 1900 or 1901. But my great-grandfather was born around 1897.

[@emily5968]

@@haylabox1662 wow! Can I ask how old your parents are? Everyone on my mom’s side had their children in their early and mid 20s- pretty average. I’m 18. I was born in 2004 and my great grandmother was born in 1931.

[@kelvinsurname7051]

​​@@emily5968 my great-grandma would have been 16 years of age, and great grandfather around 20. I am 20 years old myself.

[@emily5968]

@@kelvinsurname7051 that’s crazy! I guess my family is just young

[@kelvinsurname7051]

@@emily5968 well to consider that my grandparents of my motherside would have been 102 today, it is reasonable to say that my family, especially my moms side had children late. My oldest uncle would be around 82 today. My grandparents of the other side, of which my grandfather died in 2016, at the age 86, he would have been 93 years old today. My grandmother is nearing 91. My great uncles and aunts are well into their 80's and 90's. Strangely I am already uncle for nearly 6 years.

[@norwegiannationalist7678]

People nowadays: i got a 1000 watt subwoofer. People old times: i got a 70 cm horn

[@dazednconfuzed7173]

RMS or PMPO? 🙄😁

[@kadengrossman6252]

78 rpm

[@lew5142]

Beautiful looking machine. Even in our times this still seems like an incredible piece of human technology - to piece together bits of wood, metal and other materials in such a way that it may carry the sound of a moment over a hundred years into the future so we may hear it. Without the use of electricity.

[@airsnaillll]

I have one at my house and it is a bug box

[@airsnaillll]

I mean big*

[@theultimatehunt]

Amen to your comment! This is amazing tech.

[@lew5142]

Bat1Cr3ase ok Beavis

[@sunilkulkarni2156]

@@airsnaillll presently working this and you sale these

[@iceberg789]

that big record did not even last for 5 minutes, but it's amazing how loud the sound is without electricity.

[@H.EL-Othemany]

@@Tadfafty put a sock in it!!

[@michaelchadwick2254]

It's a 78. They're only about 3 minutes. The size of the record has nothing to do with the duration.

[@willtubes73]

@@michaelchadwick2254 Yes it does, a wider diameter allows for more grooves to be compactly placed onto the record and still spin at 78 RPM. I have multiple 78 albums (eg. classical music) which were provided on both 12 inch discs and 10 inch discs and more music is easily fit onto the bigger 12 inch counterparts.

[@michaelchadwick2254]

@@willtubes73 That's not what I meant. You misinterpreted. Please re-read and re-think then let me know what you come up with.

[@willtubes73]

@@michaelchadwick2254 No reason to be rude, if you could please elaborate than I would get a better understanding of your thesis

[@jeopardy60611]

It's so interesting to know what recorded music was like more than 100 years ago. My understanding is that the whole orchestra had to crowd around a horn and record direct-to-disc. The earliest process, as I saw in a book I read back in the 80s in school, had multiple record cutting machines in the studio, so the orchestra had to keep making recordings to make more records, as there was no "pressing" to duplicate the record.

[@OlavARod]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hp-Uo2VjqZpsnaM - and cylinders where often made out of a mould if I’m correct. They never needed to have multiple machines in the same room to make more copies. That would make each cylinder different, and only a few of them would be good to listen to because of the placing of the different instruments in front of the horn.

[@jeeprod1]

Cylinders were able to made from a master only after 1902. Before that, if you wanted 10 copies of a record, you had your band play it 10 times. Or, you put multiple machines out and had the band play into many at the same time. Also, a method of mechanical Pantographing allowed several copies to be made from an original.

[@gmmix]

This machine plays surprisingly well for one so early. This talking machine has many characteristics of the Victor II. Thanks for this video.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

10 years later and still no copyright strike.

[@gamerkangaroo1513]

Nice one

[@SpaceCadebt]

lmao

[@hebneh]

All copyrights older than the middle 1920s have permanently expired so we can do as we wish with stuff as old as this, and nobody can stop us.

[@Mehranistan]

Now 12

[@daddybu]

Got a copyright after 13years

[@TreadTalk247]

We have a Victor Talking Machine “Victrola” that my Father in Law refinished for my Wife as a gift for graduation and we adore it! We play it a few times a year, we were lucky enough to find a stack of approx 50-60 records in my Grandmother’s basement that play nicely on it as well! He also refinished an old original oak ice box (turn of the century refrigerator) with me as well as a gift for my Wife for our anniversary! We love it....

[@The90sGamingGuy]

Nice machine and very good sounding record.

[@canwehit100ksubsfordimitry7]

Whaaaat?? Sounds like crap!

[@agentorange6441]

can we hit 100k subs for dimitry??? ur deaf lol😂

[@archdebiangentoo]

can we hit 100k subs for dimitry??? Your phone

[@theantiquescollector2199]

@@canwehit100ksubsfordimitry7 And you think A almost 100 year old machine Will sound like a High quality Speakers? Dumbass!

[@swegboii6447]

@@canwehit100ksubsfordimitry7 lmao you are a new level of stupif

[@Tojazzer]

I just love this machine. Congratulations and thank you for showing it.

[@durekatt]

Thank you for sharing this. A wonderful instrument, and a record label I have never seen before. I learn something every day.. :-)

[@GurmukhSingh-tz6kb]

Good

[@Songwriter376]

Amazing that we are being entertained by musicians who must have long been deceased.

[@iceberg789]

write that some where and pass it to your great grand children to read after another 100 years.

[@Channel567-7]

@@iceberg789it’s here, don’t see KZbin going bust and probably will be around in a hundred years, make that 96😅

[@JackOfAllTrades2022]

Interesting, it’s not only an old record phonograph, but the record is so very old...good combination to illustrate. Nice.

[@kiritupadhyay5457]

I had shown gramophone and records at my childhood period just before 50 years. Thank you once again for showing this antic instrument.

[@swapankumarsengupta252]

Nostalgic. I remember gramophone pins had to be changed from time to time and I had a hobby of picking up used pins in my childhood.

[@zjsprout]

Impressive sound quality. Of course, the rebuilt reproducer fully demonstrates what the Victor is capable of, but don't you enjoy the discovery of a gem like this that delivers the unexpected! Since it advertises "Any Disc", do you suppose this is one of the 'universal' types that was cut for lateral or vertical play? Either way, it has substantial bass response and a quiet surface unusual for the era. Thank You for sharing this diamond!

[@TexasRailfan2008]

My dads coworker bought one of these for $5 at a garage sale and brought it to the office to play it

[@TexasRailfan2008]

Yeah! I was really jealous of him

[@TexasRailfan2008]

Well I would ask if I could film it (after all it isn’t mine) but unfortunately my dad’s coworker does not work there anymore.

[@TexasRailfan2008]

No, like 2018

[@TexasRailfan2008]

It was at a garage sale and I’m pretty sure they just wanted it gone so they listed it really low

[@AAI30]

Might have some dark history idk😂

[@lutgaye9165]

🌹OMG IN MY PREVIOUS LIFE, I USED TO PLAY THIS🤪🤪😂😂😂

[@SpaceCadebt]

What a beautiful piece of music

[@lindawoody8501]

Simply amazing now 115 years later I am hearing this with my cordless over the ear headphones on my laptop computer. Just marvelous you have been able to share this historic recording here on KZbin! Many thanks!

[@randomperson7443]

Me: Mom, can we get a record player? Mom: no, we have a record player at Grandma's house The record player at Grandma's house:

[@FireCat_P]

I'd take a gramophone over a modern turntable anyday

[@frankieiero6859]

I would love to be with my grandma

[@SwedishEmpire1700]

And it is good enough for you, rascal

[@frankieiero6859]

@@SwedishEmpire1700 nani

[@alpzepta]

@@FireCat_P I'd take both so you won't miss The Beatles record that use 33 1/3 rpm and 78rpm Yankee Doodle record all together.

[@knightingalesaid]

That is a beautiful phonograph. Nice record too. I have a few 78 records and they are fun to listen to. Thanks for sharing.

[@davidkless9131]

Thank you for posting this video and preserving history.

[@MusicBoxBoy]

Many of the very earliest disc records were announced in spite of the fact that those bearing paper labels included this information. The primary reason for the announcement being present on the earliest cylinder records was because the title information was not present anywhere on the cylinder. A paper slip indicating the artist and title were included instead but these were easily discarded. The recorded announcements on labelled records was likely a tradition carried over from early days.

[@mgconlan]

Actually some cylinder records had artist's names and song titles inscribed on the outside margin of the cylinder. Also, early record producers believed that a loud, clear and emphatic announcement at the beginning of a record added to its appeal.

[@solinus7131]

​@@mgconlanI think announcements were also carried over from experimental recordings before phonographs were commercially sold

[@IndianAntiqueHouse]

Wow..... very rare ,very good system , i never seen this one before , A very special Thanks for you for upload this video

[@version736ha2]

This has made my day, something so good about it

[@Westtoledoguy]

wow this is really great I have heard of Talkophone and Excelsior from Toledo but never seen nor heard any THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING Carl Toledo, Ohio

[@glennjohnson8170]

Glenn Johnson Historical and marvellous!When you consider the age,the sound quality is brilliant.Nice one.Love this.

[@zeusincoming282]

This kind of Music sort of makes me Happy ;-) It sounds Festive !

[@mtlicq]

Wow !!! That's amazing results from a primitive sound-recording and playback equipment. Actually that was a beautiful march and excellent performance by the musicians. I hope you take good extra careful care of those items. Don't use "pledge" or lemon-oil on that wood. Thanks for sharing this gem through KZbin.

[@Cam-wi5xx]

Your record player is incredible!

[@wallk03]

It ain't a record player. It's a gramaphone

[@willtubes73]

It ain't a gramaphone. It's a gramophone

[@Cave4590]

@@wallk03 you’re both wrong it’s a phonograph and by every meaning of the definition it is a record player

[@DixiesNewSong]

All Gramophones are phonographs, but not all phonographs are gramophones. Record player is acceptable to describe both as they are both machines that play records

[@MusicBoxBoy]

@victrolaman Thanks for the nice comments, Victrolaman! You are very welcome. I have only found five of these early Excelsior label records. I really enjoy the unusual early labels and I'm sure you do as well. I'm hoping to post a few more of the rather uncommon early record label recordings from my collection.

[@manoman1744]

Wow....its creepy and calming at the same time!

[@ibrahimali2617]

Have to wait 63 years for the white album

[@jeanmartel5188]

MOI,J'AI 61 ANS ET C'EST VRAIMENT BEAU DE VOIR ET D'ENTENDRE UN 78 TOURS QUI DATE DE 1905,QU'IL Y A PLUS DE 100 ANS.BRAVO ET MERCI POUR CE PARTAGE MUSICAL.❤LES BONS VIEUX GRAMMOPHONES DE L'ÉPOQUE DE NOS GRANDS PARENTS.

[@iViking90]

I think it's a good thing we moved to electric models with a tinier stylus. Imagine having to replace the needle every play, or trim it if it were bamboo.

[@back2skooldaze]

I have a few gramophones with noisey motors :( Still a beautiful gramophone and sounds good too!

[@THEOGJIGSAWGMOD]

Oil them

[@Altchannel2988]

My victrola vv 80 always has a noisy motor no matter how well I oiled it. I traced the sound to the governor which is just slightly out of balance causing a slight rumble. Noisy motors don’t bother me though because you can’t hear it when the records playing

[@MusicBoxBoy]

Thanks Sarah! Always nice to see your refreshing and supportive comments. Stop by anytime!

[@nothingness937]

Wow..this is the first time I'm watching playing this..thank you so much😍

[@discharge2331]

It's quite amazing that records haven't physically changed ever since.

[@smilingboss77]

Well, actually they kinda have! There has been a lot of changes since the single sided "78s" like this record in the video. Nowadays records are a bit larger, are double sided, and hold WAY more than 5 minutes of music, usually at 33 instead of 78rpm.

[@discharge2331]

@@smilingboss77 I was really referring to the physical appearance .

[@discharge2331]

It's the kind of thing you would find at a jumble sale in the 60s probably or maybe not it would have been half a century old even then 🤔

[@alexandrecomposicoes5432]

muito interessante essa relíquia. obrigado por nos mostrar como começou os antigos aparelhos. isso e uma história muito bonita.

[@mgconlan]

There was another Excelsior record label in L.A. in the early 1940's. It and its sister label Exclusive recorded mostly Black R&B artists.The Black songwriting brothers Leon and Oris René ("When It's Sleepy Time Down South," "When the Swallows Come Back to Capstrano") were the principal owners, and though they recored mostly Black artists (including two sessions with Nat "King" Cole after Decca dropped him and before Capitol signed him), they also made early records with Frankie Laine.

[@rigid1454]

Its hard to imagine the genius of people like Thomas Edison back in the day.

[@willardtaylor6249]

A beautiful old record played on a beautiful old Victor machine. Thank you for showing this. One suggestion I would make would be to show a good view of the decal on the front as well as the Victor name plate on the left side. The machine is just as special as the record it played.

[@victrolaman]

How Strange that this early Excelsior Record Gives absolutely no reference to the Talk-O-Phone Co. of Toledo, Ohio on the label, and the only mention of it, is in the introduction of the record. These discs are extremely rare, and I have only come across one in all my years of collecting. You can see and hear it on my "Nobody" by Arthur Collins video on my youtube channel Thanks again for posting this rare and unusual disc. with the exceptionally interesting label. Victrolaman

[@MusicBoxBoy]

Thanks Rocky! Glad you enjoyed this one. My impression has always been that the knight was climbing stacks of disc records. Interesting to think that they could be interpreted as cylinder records too! Stop back again soon and hope you post on your channel some of the new cylinders you'll be getting soon.

[@jkerman5113]

Wow, this sounds really good for 1905!

[@itsmelissa5788]

Wow, the sound quality is so amazing! Just impressive how people could record music in such a good quality sooooooo long ago without much technology and play it without electricy. I love it, I really want a gramophone too.

[@MusicBoxBoy]

My pleasure, Carl. Glad you enjoyed this and took the time to post the nice comments. Stop back again anytime.

[@HelenRivera-u8f]

Wow awesome I can't believe an old vinyl still indeed for now generation

[@kevmichael2064]

My Grandparents were kids when this was Made!!!!.... Amazing

[@ngounchantha792]

I love this machine. Never seen before

[@EnriqueLopez-hb5jn]

What an awesome phonograph, withwind up power,.it reminds me seeing pictures where you can see Thomas Edisson next to one of these,then when you saw the logo of RCA Victor the voice of his master logo used on the records and all their products.

[@underneonloneliness2]

I find older technology very fascinating

[@prabhakarv4193]

It is our luck that such old records can be heard now..

[@victrolalover7795]

this is a wonderful record and machine that complement each other, you are quite lucky indeed to have a Victor D phonograph, for they are very rare due to not selling super well.

[@tedlawrence4189]

Just think: the earliest Berliner phonos had to be cranked all through the record. Was not until 1897 trademark machine used a spring that only needed to be cranked once.

[@plushblueep]

I happen to see one of these machines, but older at an antique mall earlier this year. Yeah, as I stopped to look, the needle was on the disc. As I took the needle out, it started spinning either 33, 45, or 78 RPM. I’m not sure. But as my dad told me to put it back, the spinning stopped as the needle landed on one the grooves.

[@pheminismisshit4571]

golden era of music

[@geraldysjunk]

No

[@robfriedrich2822]

"FOR ANY DISC TALKING MACHINE" - ok, they couldn't know, that Pathé started this year vertical cut records and Edison did so some years later. So "Any disc talking machine" was for this time true, because discs were at this moment always laterally recorded. Another thing is, an Edison disc phonograph can't play Pathe discs, because the arm is driven by the motor, not by the groove. This excludes center start records, that can't be played with tagential arms and this would make the stylus jump. I heard, the finer groove in Diamond Discs means on modern equipment to play the first Diamond Discs with print on the record with 25 µm Microgroove stylus and the later paper label records with 65 µm 1950's normal groove stylus.

[@danielalexanderkandou9610]

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[@MPERIALENTERTAINMENTD]

That is beautiful. 🤗 I would love to find one of those myself for use at home.

[@abdellazizelatmani3402]

I have one if you need it

[@Recordology]

A good quiet turntable.

[@MusicBoxBoy]

Thanks zj. I believe this record was pressed by the International Record company and that this is a lateral playback only record. The statement they make likely infers that the 'Disc Talking Machine' played only lateral cut records and the dealers probably instructed the customer what machines would play these. Great comments!

[@jackofalltradesmercury207]

Love it I coild watch and listen all day 👍👍👍👍

[@RedStinger_0]

I absolutely adore vintage technology

[@alanstrong3295]

Something to remember and treasure.

[@fernandoalmeida974]

Parabéns por esta autêntica relíquia.É de grande valor quem respeita e exerce o conservadorismo.

[@chanchalbanerjee4503]

Really amazing.Illuminating too.

[@56ghostwriter]

I love how they used to announce the number like a stage show would.

[@ramnareshsingh6870]

GREAT THANKS A LOT GOD BLESS YOU HAVE A LONG LIFE WITH GOOD HEALTH AND HYGIENE VANAKKAM NAMASKAR

[@thomasisland1]

I love a blip of old music, even in modern form. Better than them new music with people who think they have talent and wailing cybernetically like talentless drones with their fastidious shoes and better than everyone else. This is honest and simple hard work of an old song put into more effort, something about experience and risk taking you don’t hear on the radio anymore.

[@pradeepparwana8556]

Very Lovely legendary record player... I have also this type of player & records... And enjoy myself... 😊👍😍

[@MarcelGomesPan]

I want one of these, and a bunch of records!

[@Daniel_Gutierrez]

Awesome you are so lucky to have one, I wonder what they are worth now?.any idea?

[@yashyadav5024]

In India, you can get a gramophone for Rs. 6000. Which is around 81.81 U.S dollars.

[@jacobjb]

Yash Yadav Expensive.

[@patryknowicki4536]

depends, but usually 75-250 USD

[@panda-goat]

@@patryknowicki4536 perhaps the record, but this model phonograph usually sells for around 2,000 USD. What you are referring to would be a fake, modern, indian phonograph.

[@patryknowicki4536]

@@panda-goat I got an original hornless (internal horn) HMV RCA Victor model 60 gramophone for the equivalent of 150 bucks. I don't know where you live, but they aren't that expensive in Europe. Now, yes I do agree the horned gramophones are usually much more expensive, and there are plenty of fake reproduction models around. I interpreted the question as ANY 78RPM wind-up gramophone, but correct, if you would want THIS exact one you would have to pay much more than I suggested. Overall the horned gramophones are usually more desirable by the average inexperienced person as they are more "iconic". That's also why there are so many fakes. I usually stay away from cheap, shiny horned gramophones, as 99.9% of those are reproduction

[@mvsastry4445]

Thank you for sweet memory' of childhood

[@rlowle1228]

So still believe in the good old days. As amazing as this invention is imagine if that's what you had to listen to.

[@rizmid]

Good fidelity for its time! A fan and an admirer from Pakistan!

[@souravbhattacharyya3392]

So nicely tuned phonograph

[@tiegerkater582]

Thanks for the great video.

[@rashmisrivastava4274]

Old is gold amazing.

[@robfriedrich2822]

Is the motor noise normal or did the camera's leveller raise this noise? If not, what about some oil?

[@alexgzel7801]

That's a lovely tune

[@jerryjohnson4625]

And in 7 years , Titanic will sink.🚢 A slower time , when people weren't so mean.

[@ryderragone1167]

a slower time, when we still had icebergs

[@wolfmanradio]

There certainly were mean people back then. Times were rough in 1905, and there were no safety nets if one fell on hard times. I will say that, due to the lack of electronic distractions, people were much more willing to converse in public than they are today. The bad apples have always been here, but the good ones were easier known before this age of distraction.

[@leonidastheodoropoulos5642]

Did you really said that ?

[@tdiamonds23ice82]

Before it was hard to breathe.

[@memezoffuckery3207]

@@holden4111 I miss the good old Roman days, where every citizen owned a slave, and everybody had a fun time watching barbarians slaughter themselves at the Colosseum.

[@EricA-dw5st]

Interesting era before like the movie industry began. Modernist avant garde is pretty awesome as well.

[@Stahlhelm1940]

Beautiful Machine!

[@JTuniversenet]

thats so cool,love stuff like this

[@JassminaVellucci]

My great grandmother was two years, when this came out. To play music you had to crank it. Those things were built to last. Not like today.

[@davemoy330]

Sounds incredible. I'm trying to buy one.

[@tourneliste4224]

The original title on the sheet score of 1904 was “A Deed of the Pen“. Came it so popular to need to change for “THE” and consider there is no one else?

[@craigmeyer1468]

Those records😀are still playable on today's phonographs and can be put onto cd with software!!!

[@patefon95]

Is it a kond of stroboscope on the record label or just a pattern? Thanks for sharing

[@ivanferreira6849]

Esse e do bom quamdo asisti este video fiquei enprencionado eu nunca tinha visto desse parabens gostei

[@muzhikforchaplin1203]

Where did you find this record? (I know the video is 10 years old)

[@PhilMante]

Reminds me of red dead redemption 2 when you walk through camp & Dutch is listening to an old Victrola.

[@jhonwask]

Amazing bass quality.

[@parmeshwarmannur8528]

I used to see such music machines in hotels during 1960 for entertaining customers.But now it is all gone.Sad indeed.

[@wesgore8016]

magnificent. thank you for sharing