The Edison Standard D model phonograph dates from around 1908 and has a clockwork spring-powered motor. It has been fitted with a recorder head that can play back two-minute cylinders.

A close up of the wax cylinder used to make Keith Potger's recording of Guardian Angel, Guiding Light.

NFSA Senior Disc Preservationist, Gerry O'Neill, closely supervises the recording of Keith Potger's Guardian Angel, Guiding Light.

Wax cylinder recording on an original 1903 Edison Standard D model phonograph of 'Guardian Angel, Guiding Light', composed and performed by Keith Potger (one of the original members of The Seekers)

Contemporary artists like Stiff Gins and The Basics record on 19th century wax cylinder technology at the NFSA.