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From 1898, a classic song of the Season, Auld Lang Syne, sung by the Edison Male Quartette.
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This ever-popular Scotch air of nostalgia, friendship, and adult beverages, is heard in this early Edison Quartette recording.
The background rumbling sound comes from a mechanical process used, probably not at Edison's Labs but at a record dealership, in duplicating this record from a master cylinder.
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See an 1858 quartette arrangement of Auld Lang Syne
(a PDF document),
courtesy of the
To hear other examples of wax cylinders, see the
