$39.95
1 in stock
There was a time when Christmas music didn’t stream — it was wound up, set on a mandrel, and gathered around.
This is an original Edison Blue Amberol cylinder record, #3352, featuring “Christmas, Christmas, Blessed, Blessed Day” performed by the Metropolitan Quartet. The Metropolitan Quartet was one of Edison’s most recorded vocal groups, and their sacred selections were staples of the catalog — four voices in close harmony, recorded in the acoustic era and preserved on this cylinder in the mid-1910s. Christmas titles were a special corner of the Edison catalog, issued for families who wanted carols and hymns at home, and they were played hard every December — which is exactly why clean survivors are getting harder to find.
The Blue Amberol was Edison’s finest cylinder format: a blue celluloid playing surface over a plaster core, playing four full minutes — double the old two-minute standard — and famously durable, made to be played Christmas after Christmas for a lifetime. This record plays on any Edison phonograph set up for 4-minute cylinders, including the Amberola line and the Standard, Home, and Triumph models fitted with 4-minute gearing.
Condition: Very good. This cylinder shows normal, age-appropriate wear and still presents well for display or playback — an honest, attractive example of a title that is usually found played out. It comes in its tube, ready for your shelf or your machine.
Play it by the tree on an original machine and you’ll understand why collectors hunt these down: this isn’t a recording about an old-fashioned Christmas. It is one — the same voices, the same carol, the same sound a family heard in their parlor more than a hundred years ago.
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