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prefer to use products such as vinyl records over modern forms of media. To begin with, the first form of music media goes back all the way to the phonograph which was made by Thomas Edison in 1877. Later the graphophone and gramophone were introduced as innovations of the phonograph. In the western world, someone who would be my grandparents’ age would use the gramophone to listen to classical music, which was popular in that time period. Records for gramophones would be made out of glass and people

building an extensive collection of records from distinct era’s and decades. As you read through the history of vinyl you will be presented with insight magnifying your ability to identify and understand information with regards to vinyl pressings from as early as the 1900s. This chapter not only riffles through a variety of record facts that will bring the newbie record collector up to speed, but also contains intriguing knowledge and stories even the fanatical record collectors are expectedly unaware

Commercialization of Records – The Record Labels In 1889 “Phonograph Parlors” began to open up, marking the debut of phonographs to the mass market. The first phonograph parlor opened up in San Francisco May of 1889. Almost all American cities had at least one by the mid 1890’s. These parlors would allow customers to sit amongst a desk and speak through a tube to request a recorded title. The title would then play through a cylinder phonograph from a room located below, allowing the customer to listen

and Jim use various methods to escape the brutalities of life. Laura retreats into a world of glass animals and old gramophone records. Amanda is obsessed with living in her past. Tom escapes into his world of poetry writing and movies. Jim also reverts to his past and remembers the days when he was a hero. Laura retreats into a world of glass animals and old gramophone records. Even when it appears that Laura is finally overcoming her shyness and hypersensitivity with Jim, she instantly reverts

sound recording. (Crane, 2015) However, the credit for the records and gramophone that we use today goes to American Inventor Emil Berliner. Despite the innovation, the gramophone did not became commercially popular when it was first invented. It was only until the end of 1897 that the first commercially manufactured disc record appeared in the United States and made the gramophone popular as a mean of entertainment. (Read, 1952) Records then began to be mass produced and distributed for different

and organize movements. The idea that streaming music promotes isolation between audiences is absurd. Saval’s concern comes from the possibility of isolation that is caused by streaming music. Stating that, “Before the invention of the record and the gramophone (1887), the only form of listening people knew was social…”. This point is not only ignorant to how audiences use music streaming to socialize but, it condemns

Sound Recording, Its History And Impact On Media In The 21st Century On this essay I will try to show how Sound Recording impacts media in the 21st century. But in order for me to do that I will need to explore the history of Sound Recording, which started in the 19th Century. Before 1877 sound could be recorded but not played. That year Thomas Alva Edison invented the talking tin foil, also known as the phonograph (voice – writer), which enabled sound to be played back (the

recording sounds and then playing it back called the Gramophone. It was patented on February 19, 1878. The Gramophone looked like a cylinder that was smaller at one end and bigger at the other. Even today, at the annual Grammy Awards the awards that are given out are miniature versions of Edison’s invention. Despite the Phonograph and the Gramophone’s success, the invention of the radio in 1906 was a threat to the recording industry. The major record companies had a hard time keeping their own sales

AGE built the recorders and developed a ring shaped recording and playback head. “A tape recorder is a portable electronic gadget used to record, reproduce, erase and rerecord sound on a magnetic tape. This devise can be used without any problem anybody by operating the press buttons attached to the recorder, viz. stop, play, wind, rewind, record, pause and reject”. GUIDELINES FOR USING A TAPE RECORDER IN TEACHING  Functions of tape and recorded cassette must be ensured before its use. 

Technology and music have always been interlinked. As technology improves ways of recording and distributing music improves. Over history we have gone from scratchy records to clear and portable MP3s. New and innovative technology have helped to shape America’s culture as a nation. In 1877 the first human voice was recorded by Thomas Edison using tinfoil. He was attempting to improve the telegraph when he realized that when he moved tape through the machine it made a noise that sounded similar to