Although the basic concept is very simple, making a tinfoil phonograph requires a great deal of precision. There can be no wobble or variation in the threads of either the shaft or the mandrel. Consequently it is very painstaking to build a working machine, and also very painstaking to keep one in adjustment so it performs at its best. For a heavy machine of cast iron, steel, and brass it is remarkably delicate in terms of adjustment.
Hi Rene outstanding voice Recording and a great video you have a beautiful collection your obsession with Tinfoil Phonographs and your incredible knowledge I bought your book that you wrote on Tinfoil Phonographs outstanding read I would love to have your Autograph on a picture with you doing a voice Recording I'd pay for it if your interested as I'm very keen Edison Phonograph collector I done a voice Recording on my Goodwin Ive Tinfoil Phonograph on TH-cam and came out quite well now our son who is 5 he's name is Lennon and he's obsessed with Edison Cylinders listening away to music coming out horns ha ha all da best from Ireland 🇮🇪 😀
It's pure tin, which I had custom made by a metals company. I used to sell foil to other collectors but have since run out of my extra stock. I have enough left for my own experiments and demonstrations.
Wonderful to see these rare machines operating. What an amazing collection.
Although the basic concept is very simple, making a tinfoil phonograph requires a great deal of precision. There can be no wobble or variation in the threads of either the shaft or the mandrel. Consequently it is very painstaking to build a working machine, and also very painstaking to keep one in adjustment so it performs at its best. For a heavy machine of cast iron, steel, and brass it is remarkably delicate in terms of adjustment.
That's a great video and very informative. These old phonographs are fascinating! Thanks for posting this.
There is something really remarkable about the tinfoil machines, they do have a very human quality to them.
Hi Rene outstanding voice Recording and a great video you have a beautiful collection your obsession with Tinfoil Phonographs and your incredible knowledge I bought your book that you wrote on Tinfoil Phonographs outstanding read I would love to have your Autograph on a picture with you doing a voice Recording I'd pay for it if your interested as I'm very keen Edison Phonograph collector I done a voice Recording on my Goodwin Ive Tinfoil Phonograph on TH-cam and came out quite well now our son who is 5 he's name is Lennon and he's obsessed with Edison Cylinders listening away to music coming out horns ha ha all da best from Ireland 🇮🇪 😀
Thanks for posting this video - you are certainly a Tinfoil fanatic!
Thanks for posting this, I have always wanted to hear an origional tinfoil machine.
How in the hell did you acquire those?
is that regular aluminum foil you used, or traditional tin?
It's pure tin, which I had custom made by a metals company. I used to sell foil to other collectors but have since run out of my extra stock. I have enough left for my own experiments and demonstrations.
Amazing, who would have thought that sound could be recorded and made permanent? I will have to take this concept back to my time, returning to 1863.
Wonderful and informative. Thank you very much for posting this! LEE
Very good outcome Mr Rondeau!
Yet another interesting antique from the tinfoil specialist.
Very interesting, I wonder if it is easy to make one of these?
Big Thomas Edson!