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History of Music Players - 1877-1928  In 1877 the first phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison. ... would run through while being hand-cranked and play the sound through the gramophone speaker. ... Johnson and Berliner began working together shortly after the gramophone made ... In 1906 the Victrola model record player was introduced by RCA Victor.
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Phonograph cylinder - Wikipedia  Phonograph cylinders are the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound. Commonly known simply as "records" in their era of greatest popularity (c. 18961915), these hollow cylindrical objects have an audio recording ... They were made of a relatively soft wax formulation and would wear out after...
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Phonograph - Wikipedia  The phonograph is a device invented in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of ... In early acoustic phonographs, the stylus vibrated a diaphragm which ... The disc phonograph record was the dominant audio recording format ..... inventions, they filed patent applications and began to seek out investors.
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History of the Victor Phonograph - The Victor-Victrola Page  Edison had invented the cylinder phonograph in 1877, but there was no ... his growing staff) made several improvements to the phonograph in those early years, ... Around 1905, Victor began to experiment with a novel idea to make the phonograph more ... initially designated as The Victor-Victrola, was marketed in 1906.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) - The Victor-Victrola Page  Q. My Victrola won't crank (or the turntable won't turn). ... A. A "Victor" is a phonograph with the horn mounted externally. ... Victrolas were made from 1906 up through 1929, when RCA bought the company (and became "RCA Victor") .... The Antique Music Machine show at Union Illinois (near Elgin) always has a lot of...
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On This Day: Thomas Edison Successfully Tests Phonograph  On Dec. 6, 1877, Thomas Alva Edison made the first recording in his tinfoil cylinder phonograph, the invention that made him ... On Dec. 7, Edison brought the phonograph into the Scientific American offices in New York and demonstrated it.
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Tinfoil Phonograph - The Edison Papers  In July 1877, while developing his telephone transmitter, Edison conceived the idea of ... The first phonograph consisted of grooved cylinder mounted on a long shaft with a screw pitch of ten threads per inch and turned by a hand crank. ... of tones and overtones necessary to reproduce human speech had devised complex...
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Phonograph - Wikipedia  The phonograph is a device invented in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of ... The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. ... The term phonograph ("sound writing") was derived from the Greek words  ... The brand name Gramophone was not used in the USA after 1901, and the word...
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The U.S. Navy  This march was played by the band and sung by the brigade at the 1906 Army-Navy football game later that month, and for the first time in several seasons,...
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The History of the Phonograph - Personal.psu.edu  Instead of using paper as a medium of recording, he used tin foil to record the ... The first audio recorded and played back was Edison saying the nursery rhyme, ... a step in the direction that we are all thankful for today, home entertainment. ... were not for the invention of the phonograph, music is an essential part of people's...
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The history of 78 RPM recordings - Yale University Library  Any flat disc record, made between about 1898 and the late 1950s and playing at a speed around 78 revolutions per minute is called a "78" by collectors.
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Lecture 2 Origins of Jazz: Ragtime  Records 30 - 91002 ... Peak popularity between 1899-1918 ... Ragtime originated in African American musical communities, in the ... America and was listened and danced to, performed, and written by people of ... The introduction of the Pianola (player piano) in 1897 helped to increase its ... Maple Leaf Rag ... The Composer.
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Electronic music - Wikipedia  Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music ... During the 1920s and 1930s, electronic instruments were introduced and the first ... Electronic music was also created in Japan and the United States beginning in the 1950s. .... 1" in 1939 by adjusting the speeds of recorded tones.
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Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Ravel) | LA Phil  Mar 18, 2013 ... Although anxious to pursue the study of music, Modest Mussorgsky was trained for ... Pictures at an Exhibition proved to be a welcome rarity in ... about the progress of the suite he was writing for piano (Pictures' original medium), ... to make an orchestral transcription of the piano set, which he did in 1922.
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Pianos manufactured in the Victorian Era to the Great Depression ...  The Chickering organization and personnel directed its construction and ... roll to which the operator imparts his own interpretation and the instrument may be played ... The Ampico may be had in the world-famous Chickering, Haines Bros., ..... were a recognized expert and he trained his associates who sustained the fine...
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Download (15MB) - D-Scholarship@Pitt - University of Pittsburgh  ubiquitous today, but after Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, nearly 25 years ..... needed to put the names and faces of women on the discs and cylinders that contained ... emulated those of the early Greek and Roman republics. 22 ..... Both words mean sound writing, and convey the idea of a machine able to.
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Sound film - Wikipedia  Over the course of 1928, as Warner Bros. began to rake in huge profits due to the popularity of its sound films, the other studios quickened the pace of their...
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10-inch 78 rpm record (1901  1960) | Museum Of Obsolete Media  Phonograph disc records were developed by Emile Berliner, whose earliest ... The earliest disc records were made of various materials including hard rubber.
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Vintage musical equipment - Wikipedia  Vintage musical equipment is older music gear, including instruments, amplifiers and effects ... Because instrument makers and inventors were always revising their ... musicians and collectors began to recognize the value of older instruments. ... for Stax Records that helped define the sound of soul music in the 1960s that...
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History of Ragtime [article]:Article Description: Performing Arts ...  Sep 29, 2006 ... It emerged in its published form during the mid-1890s and quickly spread ... By the early 1900s ragtime flooded the music publishing industry. ... jazz, and other popular genres of music, ragtime invited "the curiosity and even ... time," denoting a style of playing piano or banjo where the melody is "broken up"...
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Gramophone record - Wikipedia  A gramophone record (phonograph record in American English) or vinyl record, commonly known as a record, is an analogue sound storage medium in the form of a flat polyvinyl chloride (previously shellac) disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.