The Old Phono Blog
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More than forty-five thousand talking machines are in use in the United States alone, and the demand for them is so great that the factories are working night and day. The phonograph is constantly being put to new and unique uses.
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- Written by: John Edward Hasse
A century ago, a recording of the startlingly novel “Livery Stable Blues” helped launch a new genre of music unknown to most of the rest of the United States.
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Only the most prestigious pupils could enroll in The Philadelphia Phonograph School of Languages for Parrots, which in 1903 was said to be “the only institution of its kind in the world.” It boasted over 100 feathered graduates that “could pronounce all kinds of sentences and phrases” and speak three different languages (English, French, and German).
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A Long Island consumer electronics company, Innovative Technology, is rebranding its nostalgia turntable line after acquiring the historic Victrola trademark for a six-figure sum, the company’s owner says.
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- Written by: Liao Fangzhou
A few years after the founding of the earliest record player companies like Pathé by the Pathé Brothers in France in 1896, the Gramophone and Typewriter Company by William Owen in the UK in 1900, and the Victor Talking Machine Company by Eldridge R. Johnson in the US in 1901, Shanghai became the target for this new entertainment.
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- Thomas Edison and the Eclipse of 1878
- Free Discography Downloads
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- Restoring a vintage 1920s recording system for 'American Epic'
- 30,000 78rpm Records Are Now In a Digital Archive