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Music and speech up to a maximum of 2 min 10 sec
High quality electrical recording process
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Wax cylinders lose a little of their quality
at each playing, do not play your recordings
unnecessarily because the sound will soon
deteriorate.
Wax cylinders are extremely fragile and will
break if dropped or mishandled. Please read
handling
instructions carefully.
Do not expect miracles: With electrical
playback, wax cylinders can give quality
approaching the sound of a good 78 rpm record; but
with acoustic playback on a cylinder phonograph the
sound will be distinctly 'telephonic'.
Many playback machines cannot cope with heavy
bass or emphasised high frequencies, the playback
device will jump and damage the grooves. Avoid
having too much low bass and high treble in your
recordings - even if they don't cause damage, you
won't hear them through the playback horn anyway;
also, the overall recording level will have to be
reduced to accommodate them, so the rest of the
recording will sound quieter than normal.
Wax cylinders are monophonic, stereo
originals will be converted to mono (equal channel
weighting) when recording them to cylinder.
All musical compositions and written texts
are automatically copyright
under English Law. The recording or re-recording of
copyright material is illegal unless the consent of
the copyright holder has been obtained in advance.
If in any doubt, please contact the Mechanical
Copyright Protection Society for
advice. Please do not send recordings from
commercial CDs, LPs or 78s for copying unless they
are accompanied by proof that you have the
recording company's express permission.
POPPY Records reserves the right to refuse to
make recordings which in our opinion are illegal or
offensive or unsuitable in any way. Most countries
have severe penalties for 'passing-off' fakes as
genuine articles. POPPY Records cylnders will be
indelibly marked so that they cannot be mistaken
for historic artifacts.
This service is not available for making
copies of of commercial recordings or for test
tones. Please enquire
if you wish to issue cylinders commercially. Please
see our range of calibration
cylinders for test tones.
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You can pay by personal cheque (UK only) or online through our web shop Please e-mail your requirements or enquiry to: adm@ poppyrecords[dot]co[dot]uk |
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£20.00 + postage
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More details of the recording process