Miller, a senior from Warne, North Carolina, said the wax recording was unbelievable. "Being recorded on a wax cylinder was surreal because it felt so connected to the past. Music has been around ...

The first commercial medium for audio recording and playback used a wax cylinder. Similar to the phonograph record that later followed, sound waves were turned into mechanical vibrations that ...

This story started in early 2019 with a toothache and the rumor of a Pasadena dentist obsessed with wax cylinders, the earliest commercial recording format. I’d been aware of Dr. Michael ...

The Edison Blue Amberol records came out in 1912 and were far superior to the earlier wax cylinders. If you had one today, how could you play it? Easy. Just build [Palingenesis’] record player.