The Second Verse of “The Star Spangled Banner” on a 1914 Edison cylinder recording! ! ! !

1914 Thomas Edison Cylinder of the Star Spangled Banner includes the Second Verse ! ! ! Here is a rare 1914 recording by Edison of The Star Spangled Banner. This recording includes the seldom heard second verse. I will play it for you on an Edison Amberola 75 phonograph. You will enjoy it This music was recorded on June 5, 1914, and Edison released the cylinder in July 1915. This is Edison Blue Amberol cylinder, #2652: Baritone Thomas Chalmers sings "The Star Spangled Banner". In the chorus are Elizabeth Spencer, Helen Clark, Royal Fish, and Frederick Wheeler and an orchestra. The music you hear from the phonograph is being made without electricity. There is no amplifier. This is a wind-up, clockwork phonograph. A spring motor turns the cylinder. A diamond stylus rides in the cylinder’s grooves and vibrates a diaphragm. The sounds from the diaphragm are routed through a tapered horn which brings out more of the bass notes and increases the volume. This Amberola sounds better than most because I rebuilt the reproducer and used a custom designed 3D printed diaphragm. This improved diaphragm reproduces up to an octave more music than the original diaphragm. The song The Star Spangled Banner was first published as the “ Defense of Fort McHenry” by Francis Scott Key. Here are the complete lyrics of "The : Star-Spangled Banner" from Francis Scott Key's manuscript: (Maryland Historical Society collection). O say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines in the stream, 'Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a Country should leave us no more? Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation! Blest with vict'ry and peace may the heav'n rescued land Praise the power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto - "In God is our trust," And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave