Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you, but I'm afraid I have to go.
Transcribed by AI from the recording above. These are noisy hundred-year-old cylinders, so expect misheard words and the occasional invented line — trust your ears over the text.
Audio public domain, courtesy of the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive. Transcript CC BY 4.0. Free to reuse, including commercially, with credit.
Charles Daab recorded 1910–1916
Edison's xylophone and bells specialist. He signed with the company on 2 July 1910 and moved quickly to making cylinders on both instruments; his “William Tell — Fantasie” is in this collection. Percussion of this kind recorded unusually well through an acoustic horn, and Edison kept a xylophonist on the roster throughout — a new group of players took over from Daab in 1916.
Written from Percussive Arts Society. Corrections welcome.