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providing the finest sonic clarity available from wax cylinders.
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WAX CYLINDER SAMPLERS
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The Brown Wax Sampler
The earliest commercial phonograph recordings and generally more
primitive-sounding than black wax cylinders,
brown wax cylinders carry a wonderfully distinctive sound.

Enjoy 24 brown wax "hits" and other historic recordings of the 1890's to
the early 1900's
including seven recordings from 5" diameter "concert" cylinders.
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Price:
$15.00
Item: CD-scBR
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The Black Wax Sampler
Twenty-eight full-length selections of some of the best and
most interesting two-minute black wax cylinder recordings
from the early 20th Century.

If you're new to early recorded sounds and wax cylinders, start here!
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Price:
$15.00
Item: CD-scBL
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BROWN WAX SERIES (1888-1903)
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1888-1894, The North American Phonograph Company Era
Experience the beginnings of the commercial phonograph industry as the
North American Phonograph Company and its regional companies created
the recorded music America listened to.
The bulk of these recordings were intended for coin-in-the-slot "nickelodeons" or
exhibition purposes, as phonographs were not yet economically practical in most homes.
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Price:
$15.00
Item: CD-bwNA
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1895-1897, The Post-North American Phonograph Company Era
Hear recordings made after the break-up of the North American Phonograph Company,
as the former regional companies, led by the one from Washington, DC
the Columbia Phonograph Company
navigated their way into the rapidly expanding home market for phonograph records.
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Price:
$15.00
Item: CD-bwPN
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1898
Vigorous competition from
Edison's new National Phonograph Company, plus
Spanish-American War-inspired songs, marches,
and popular "descriptive selections", helped swell
record company catalogs and public appetite for recordings.
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Price:
$15.00
Item: CD-bw98
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1899
Hear why it was known as "The Gay Nineties" . . .
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Price:
$15.00
Item: CD-bw99
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BLACK WAX SERIES (1902-1912)
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Comic Songs
Somewhat a lost art today; these comic songs are positively mood altering!
Enjoy 28 of the best, sung by the top recording personalities of the time.
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Price:
$15.00
Item: CD-2mCS
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Popular Songs
Here are songs that have stood the test of time for well over ninety years.
Many are still familiar today, others long overdue for a return engagement.
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Price:
$15.00
Item: CD-2mPS
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Popular Band & Instrumental
No vocals, just a mother lode of snappy, rousing, toe-tapping, up-tempo, and mighty-catchy tunes.
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Price:
$15.00
Item: CD-2mPB
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Vaudeville & Minstrelsy
Plenty of good humor, laughs, and just plain fun.
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Price:
$15.00
Item: CD-2mVM
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Classical, Orchestral & Instrumental
Includes rare and early (in some cases perhaps the earliest) recordings
of several instruments including the saxophone, bagpipe, oboe, concertina,
and even an ocarina!
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Price:
$15.00
Item: CD-2mCO
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Hymns & Sacred Songs
A moving compilation of songs of faith.
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Price:
$15.00
Item: CD-2mHS
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Sentimental Songs
A terrific collection of many of the best sentimental songs ever written.
Keeping your eyes dry through this volume may prove difficult . . .
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Price:
$15.00
Item: CD-2mSS
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Ira Sankey, 1898-1900, There'll Be No Dark Valley
Seven rare and historic recordings by Ira Sankey, composer of over 1,000 hymns.
Sankey was one-half of the pioneering evangelistic team (1871-1899)
of Dwight L. Moody and Sankey.
His innovations in "singing the Gospel" revolutionized worship.
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Price:
$10.00
Item: CD-scIS
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Ada Jones & Billy Murray
Two of the acoustic recording era's biggest stars, Ada Jones and Billy Murray,
singing many of their most popular songs.
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Price:
$15.00
Item: CD-scJM
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