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An advertisement for Edison New Standard Phonograph, 1898 An advertisement for the Columbia Grafonola. This is a list of phonograph manufacturers.The phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone, record player or turntable, is a device introduced in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.
The World Record Controller was an attachment for ordinary record players that slowed the turntable down when playing the outside of the record and allowed it to gradually speed up as the needle was carried inward by the groove. Of course, only special World records could be used. The World system was a commercial failure.
A Crosley retro-styled suitcase record player produced in c. 2013. At the low-end of the market, Crosley has been especially popular with its suitcase record players [91] and have played a big part in the vinyl revival and its adoption among younger people and children in the 2010s. [92] A mid-range Yamaha turntable, c. 2019
RyanJLane/istockphotoIf you’ve got an old record player sitting in the garage collecting dust, it might be time to take a closer look at it. Vintage record players don’t just serve as ...
Phonograph cylinders (also referred to as Edison cylinders after its creator Thomas Edison) are the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound.Commonly known simply as "records" in their heyday (c. 1896–1916), a name which has been passed on to their disc-shaped successor, these hollow cylindrical objects have an audio recording engraved on the outside surface which can ...
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Odeon Records is a record label founded in 1903 by Max Straus and Heinrich Zuntz of the International Talking Machine Company in Berlin, Germany. [1] The label's name and logo come from the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe in Paris.
The first Dansette record player was manufactured in 1952, by the London firm of J & A Margolin Ltd, and at least one million were sold in the 1950s and 1960s. Dansette became a household name in the late 1950s and 60s when the British music industry shot up in popularity after the arrival of acts such as Cliff Richard , The Beatles and The ...