This 112yr Old Columbia AD Record Looks UNTOUCHED / UNPLAYED! A GREAT Find! Listen Til The END!!

[@StephanieJeanne]

It's just amazing when you find that kind of treasure! For 112 years it's floated around out there and never been damaged! 🤯 Pretty song on the second side. 😊❤

[@gordonteats298]

My uncle gave me 80 78 RPM records he found in a attic back in the 1970s , they were all brand new and shiny

[@robfriedrich2822]

Better than otherwise, because you would need a turntable with pitch slider

[@blackpoolbarmpot]

I find the earlier acoustically recorded records (like this one) seem to sound better than many of the later acoustic recordings. Of course, the greatest improvement in sound quality, was when electric recordings came out in the mid 1920's. Very nice recording, thanks for sharing it with us.

[@robertplant9710]

Such a cool thought. Voices of people who are definitely deceased now forever available to be played

[@mondellomusic]

Records are everything

[@Kennephone]

It's incredible how we're able to hear this in more detail than the they could back then. Usually older records tend to sound worse on modern equipment due to how sensitive the pickup is, but when a record is unworn like this it's incredible. I would definitely only use fibre needles if playing it on an acoustic machine.

[@excrono]

To be fair this is amazing frequency response from a record of this era, high frequency response is clearly very prone to wear in old 78 schelac. If you were listening when released in the 10s or 20s aughts, this would be the experience. Sadly you couldn’t digitize it until now! One could do a stereo mix from this. Not sure if it would be appropriate or too weird.

[@anthonyginther6883]

Acquired a 4 78 album from the 40s with its cellophane raper still intact. Opened it and played them, despite being pristine still a lot of surface noise.

[@segoon2000]

Are you sure you used the right type of needle

[@shosha1878]

Beautiful sound!

[@tedrobinson372]

Frank Croxton has the authoritative voice for this record. Although I do like Frank C Stanley's Columbia Double Disc Record. "Double the value as plain as daylight"!

[@Eeklex]

I was unfamiliar with Mr. Croxton, and had to look him up to confirm that, as I figured, he was American born-a Kentuckian. From other sound recordings from that era I’ve heard, I’ve learned that British-inflected American accents were once common, but I guess vanished after his generation.

[@Musicradio77Network]

That’s another one of those advertising records for Columbia’s “Double Disc Records”.

[@spacemissing]

I picked up a copy of this a long time ago. One of the fun things about it is the style of speaking, excessively noble and formal. Imagine a TV ad for an embarrassing product in which the announcer talks like that.

[@christophergordon6593]

Such a mannered, "genteel" way of speaking - funny to hear the all the rolled R's.

[@OldGrooves-eh5uz]

I've got all three Columbia promotional records (1910--1913-1923), all mint. I think they gave them away to customers who bought a grafanola.

[@ThePhonographStop]

Nice! All the ones i have found in the past were in pretty well played condition.

[@EmilyTienne]

What a beautiful object.

[@ArthurJS123]

78’s were pressed in such high volume, it is almost inevitable that there are some pristine survivors out there. Often amazed that given the brittle shellac, these are so plentiful.

[@fredparker1734]

Staggering,that something so fragile could look and sound so good,after so many decades,after being moved around,played and played and,stored in God-only-knows what sort of conditions.

[@walkingtheboogie]

What a lovely song on the flip side. Thanks for uploading. I don't know if they issued records like this in the UK, where I am from.

[@williamstephens9945]

This is incredible! Ive heard many digital tramsfers of ood recordings from this period, but this disc sosnr have the wear from pkaying that mist others seem to have! The quality is quite surprising for its time!

[@robertwheeler4068]

WOW! This record was made 4 years before my late father was born.

[@randyhorne1067]

Incredible

[@Jon-be9yy]

Make more videos showing & playing your old record collection.

[@solinus7131]

My guesses (some were harder to tell apart than others!): 2:49 1st violin 2:52 2nd violin 2:54 Viola 2:56 Cello? (may be completely inaudible) + Flute + Bass 2:59 Oboe 3:05 Basson 3:14 French horn 3:20 Bells 3:25 Cornet 3:37 Trombone

[@DavidBerquist334]

I saw some like that come to recycling but must be shredded How many 🎤 microphone and what kind of mixing board

[@robertammann5086]

None.

[@tiojimmy3425]

Hey Dave... no microphones or mixers in those days, just a single horn feeding the recording stylus 😊... Jimmy from beautiful 😂 bucolic downtown Schnecksville, PA, sun 🌞 and fun 🎉capital of the world 🌎!!

[@rodpeeler7847]

No microphones or mixing boards were used because these records are acoustically recorded ones - the vocalist(s) or instrumentalist(s) sang or played into a horn like that on an old phonograph (electric recording only began ib the late 1920s).

[@rodpeeler7847]

The reason they used shellac rather than vinyl was because at the time, it was one of the few mouldable materials around (if not the only one) at the time.

[@wesleyrodgers886]

Disc talking machines. 😊

[@allen-rp3gm]

I was given a box of random records which included a 1905 Fonotopia shellac. Not pristine unplayed but in extraordinarily good condition. The oldest record I've personally ever seen.

[@dimebagdave77]

Big thanks to The Phonograph Stop

[@robfriedrich2822]

It seems the process couldn't catch frequencies above 3 kHz

[@professorsouthside]

Wow! This sounds amazing for its age! You must let us know what software/plug-ins you used to get this sounding so clean

[@ThePhonographStop]

Thank you. I use Audacity software to clean it up but not much editing is needed.

[@davidkenner-rb8go]

If you paid $7.50 for a record back then, you must have had money to burn.

[@ThePhonographStop]

Absolutely!

[@mr.bloodvessel260]

I have about 100 78’s where is the best place to sell them?

[@ThePhonographStop]

Facebook marketplace. Share the link with me orr email me what you have.

[@tomkent4656]

Cello part played by a tuba, of course.

[@solinus7131]

kinda false advertising I wonder if anyone spotted that subsitution back then

[@bgrimsle]

Went to an inflation calculator, which only went back to the year of this record, and the $7.50 mentioned in the text is $241.53 today. For 2 short songs.

[@claude-rizzo-vignaud]

Record strictly MINT.

[@Musicradio77Network]

There was another advertising record where he demonstrates the Columbia Double Disc Records. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJelpqKAibtseNUsi=VPbi6U-tnrrOmGBn

[@danielarick2105]

Probably not a seventy-eight, but, more like eighty rpm.

[@ThePhonographStop]

Yes !!

[@normancherry8732]

Why not take it to a recording studio and have them play it once to record it all, then put it away for posterity's sake? Then you'll have a good clear sound to play over and over again and enjoy the purer sound in your lifetime instead of depriving yourself of the privilege, otherwise you'll just be probably leaving it to a museum who'll never play it ever, what a waste! after all, one play isn't going to make any difference and the voice on it did say in the description that it would outwear all other records.

[@ThePhonographStop]

I already did a digital transfer of both sides.

[@normancherry8732]

Hope you enjoy many hours of listening then and find a final resting place for the record.

[@cathedral94]

Is this how they spoke back then?

[@Ram-Man]

Theaterically (coined word) speaking...yes. Not the general public though.