depends on what you mean by "late in the game." He (Edison) cooperated with Wangemann's commercial recording activities (on site) as early as 1889-1892, and the titles/artists have been published in ECR (day by day). Sadly the Walt Whitman recording didn't work out... Allen K. ---------------- In a message dated 2/10/2016 1:22:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: And Edison really thought his new machine would be confined to secretaries as a dictation aid. He wasn't keen on its phonographic uses until very late in the game, but he stuck with it once he saw the possibilities.