Time Traveler Music

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies on a Porter 15.5" music disc.

Will it play? Spoiler alert and a warning for headphone users: it cracks and snaps a bit

Edison Fireside Model A playing 4 minute Royal Purple Cylinder #29020 "Smiles" sung by Marie Rappolo. I have another Fireside phonograph that needs complete restoration. Comment below if you would like to see that process in a video.

This is a soft rain storm recorded on a gulf island off the coast of Florida.

This video covers the most popular collectible wind up, outside horn phonographs for new collectors. Including Victor, Columbia and Edison.

Auld Lang Syne played on an 1897 Junod Swiss Music Box

This is a Stinson Caliola, styled after the Wurlitzer Caliola, playing Silent Night. This particular organ has since been donated to the Carousel of Happiness in Nederland Colorado.

Porter Music Box Disc - Amazing Grace, played on a 1897 Regina Music Box

PDS128+ Player Piano in Knabe KN500 piano performs 100+ year old song.

1902 Edison Concert Cylinder - Stars and Stripes Forever March - Played by the Edison Military Band - Played on a Columbia AG Grand Graphophone

Seeburg L upper action

The story of Horatio Gates Spafford and family, and the origin of the song "It is well with my soul." The song is then played on an Edison Fireside Phonograph cylinder record player with an Edison Gold Moulded Cylinder Record.

Monastery Bells - Porter Music Box Disc 1019 - 1902 Regina Model 11 15-1/2" double comb music box

Regina Music Box Disc 1016, The Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss Jr. played on a double comb Regina Music Box dating from 1902

1918 Song I'm forever Blowing Bubbles, written by: James Kendis, James Brockman and Nat Vincent, sung by Helen Clark and George Ballard on Edison Amberol record No. 3798. Played on a rarely seen Edison (4 minute only) Standard Model E Phonograph, with Model N reproducer, through the rare blue morning glory flowered horn, only sold with the Standard Model E (and the Edison Fireside Model A for a short time).

Meliora Music Roll, Duo-Art version of Scott Joplin's Ragtime Dance, performed by: Timothy Baxter. Playing on a 1929 Steinway & Sons XR Piano.

This is a late 1960's Kimball Player Organ, Model 1200 playing a QRS Kimball Organ roll of Somewhere My Love

Gautschi & Sons 8 Tune Swiss Cylinder Music Box Song Card Reads: The Wedding March – Mendelsohn The Bohemian Girl - You’ll Remember Me – Balfe Annie Laurie The Hornpipe – Polka – Smith The Blue Bells of Scottland (sic) Pretty as a Picture – Brohof Home Sweet Home – Sinclair London – Gayety Valse – Jacobeli (sp?)

1917 Victor Record - Collins and Harlan - The Old Grey Mare played on an early Victor "School House" V-XXV Talking Machine

This is an Edison Model D 2 and 4 minute "Maroon GEM" phonograph. It is in rough condition, but still plays after 110 years! It is playing a circa 1921 4 minute Blue Amberol Record featuring the singer Noble Sissle. Should we do a video of restoring and re-painting/re-decaling this machine? Let us know in the comments!

QRS Music Roll American Pie on Player Piano

Here is a relic dug out of a barn, unrestored and all original. 1902 Columbia Disc Graphophone, First Model AK. It cranked right up and played! It came with a 1916 Emerson recording of "Lights Out" march and one step on the turntable. Was this the last record it played before going out to the barn, possibly at the start of World War I or the Spanish Flu pandemic?

Black Bottom on perfect record no: 14656B performed by Lou Gold and his Orchestra. Written by De Sylva - Brown - Henderson. Vocal by Arthur Fields. Being played on circa 1910 Victor Model III Talking Machine.

Ada Jones (with an assist from Billy Murray) sings "By the light of the Silvery Moon" on Edison Blue Amberol record 1521, released in 1912 played on a 1914 Edison Model DX Amberola X internal horn phonograph, which by this time used the same motor as the outside horn Edison Fireside Phonograph (earlier versions of the Amberola X used the same motor as the smaller Edison GEM phonograph).