Edison Diamond Disc

Record #50591

Side R –“Celestial Chimes”

Side L- “Christmas Bells”

By Robert Gayer on the Celesta*

ONLY Play on an Edison Diamond Disc Phonograph (80 rpm)

“CelestialChimes”

Includes the “Old Hundred” hymn, “Adeste Fidelis”, “O Come AllYe Faithful”

“ChristmasBells”

Includes “it came Upon a Midnight Clear” and Handel’s “Joy tothe World”

Recordappears to be in very good condition.However, I do not have an Edison phonograph, so I was unable to testit. The record sleeve is in poorcondition. (See photo)

*”Celestais a keyboard instrument with steel plates, suspended over resonating boxes ofwood, which are struck by hammers as in the piano. The tone of the instrument is of exquisitepurity. It is popular with Frenchcomposers as an orchestral instrument, but is used rarely by composers of othercountries.” (Source: Record sleeve)