Now I'd be lying to say I remember Edison Cylinders, but I had a lot of fun with them many years ago. I was working at the Newark Museum and they had quite a collection of cylinders and an old player. It was missing a belt, but I managed to get it working with a long, heavy rubber band, and ended up recording some of the cylinders onto tape. The fidelity was terrible and the speed erratic, but I came to love the old novelty songs, orchestral arrangements and quasi-folk material like The Preacher and the Bear. There was a lot of wonderful ragtime too. It's when I first heard Vess Ossman and Fred Van Epps on plectrum banjo, doing ragtime. Great stuff, not much of which has been re-issued because of a lack of interest.