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Ava Maria violin solo by Carl Flesch – his first Edison performance
$43.95
The performance of Ava Maria is a violin solo by Hungarian Carl Flesch and piano accompaniment was recorded April 9, 1914 in New York. This record was released in 1914 – an initial release without the code number 82063 yet available for label engraving. Later re releases of this recording happened in 1919 and 1920 (below the E and the N of the EDISON label there are numbers indicating those later releases). Chemical supplies after World War caused those releases to have structural issues with their discs. This record is from supplies before the shortages of chemicals World War I…
Description
This two sided performance on 10″ record is the fore runner of Edison’s later 12″ Long Playing Record. That record featured 12 pieces of Carl Flesch’s and is the most searched for Edison Log Play Record.
This is one of the 1/4 inch thick black carbon Edison records, with a etched as opposed to printed label.
This record may play on a normal 78 record player however Edison Diamond discs were recorded at 80 rpm is using a horizontal diaphragm, intended it to be played back on an Edison phonograph that also used a horizontal stylus/cartridge that Edison referred to as diamond tipped.
It should not be played on any of the steel tip stylus players of that era because they will destroy the groves which modulate up and down rather than from side to side as the steel tip vertical diaphragms used by non Edison players used.
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