Edison Cylinder Phonograph Transparencies

[MordEth]

I wanted to share a couple of images (since they are of Edison machines) with anyone here who may not have seen them on The Talking Machine Forum, where I originally posted them.

The first image is a photo of a maroon Gem, graciously provided by maroongem. I’m not 100% satisfied with the crane (it probably would have been easier to cut against a different background), but here you go:

The shadow was painted in, and is partially transparent, which is one of the advantages of the PNG image format. You might also note that it might look rather familiar, as the image is maroongem’s avatar. The original photo can be seen here:

The second image is an Edison Home that Neophone had me cut out for the TMF logo...

Here is the logo that it went into:

I am currently working on stock avatars for that board, but if anyone here would like to provide me with images to use to cut out (larger is better), I would like to donate any of the Edison graphics that I make to this board as well. At some point I would also like to give Matt a logo for the Edison board, also. (Apparently John has ideas in mind; I merely provide the execution. )

Anyway...if you haven’t seen the images before, I hope you enjoyed them, and if you have something that you would like me to cut out for you (that you do not mind being displayed on both sites and being donated as an avatar to both), I welcome any Edison machine photos that you wish to share with others. Please feel free to e-mail them to me at [e-mail], post them as a reply, send them as a private message, etc.

By the way, while I have thanked Matt privately, I wanted to publicly thank him for advertising us (and just generally being a very friendly person). Hopefully we can send a few people back this way as well.

May your 2009 be filled with music and phonographs!

— MordEth

(Edit: Thanked Matt, fixed links.)

[MordEth]

Here are a couple more cut images that I wanted to share with you. The first I did a while ago, for JohnM’s avatar, from an image of his mahogany Opera:

Next up is a crank from John’s collection that I cut out as an avatar idea for yankmycrank:

While I believe that it is a generic crank (to be honest, I forget what John said about it), I thought you guys might appreciate it anyway. ;D

Expect more soon!

— MordEth

(Originally posted here.)

[3victrolas]

This particular Opera image is especially interesting because of the shadowing on it from the window!

[MordEth]

JohnM takes a good photograph, doesn’t he? To be honest, I should probably get the original photo up, also. I’ll try to do that today. I’m playing catch-up at the moment.

A lot of people have been very gracious to let me use their images for posting on this board and on others (or to give them a custom avatar, etc.).

I really need to do more Edison machines—I have more good pictures of non-Edison machines and almost all of the record scans that I have done personally (for John’s YouTube channel, basically) have almost exclusively been 78s.

I plan on getting some good Diamond Disc scans done at some point in the near future, as well, and will be cross-posting labels from that here, for any Edison fans who might not see them in the other record labels thread.

Your friendly internet daemon,

MordEth