Wax cylinder recordings join the WDM collection in 1979

On this day in 1979, the Western Development Museum shared a wax cylinder recording for a phonograph from the museum's catalogue.

From the StarPhoenix archives, by Lolly Kaiser:

The Western Development Museum in Saskatoon has been busy cataloguing about 1,200 of early Amberol records produced from 1881 to 1929. The name was used by Edison’s three record manufacturing companies although other companies such as Columbia also produced cylinder records.THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLYUnlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account.

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