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  2. Gianni Bettini - Wikipedia

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    Gianni Bettini (1860, Novara – 27 February 1938, San Remo) was a gentleman inventor and a pioneer audiophile who invented several phonograph improvements. [1] He is best known for having made the first (and in some cases only) recordings of the voices of several very famous singers and other celebrities of the 1890s. [2]

  3. Timeline of music technology - Wikipedia

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    1921 : First commercial AM radio Broadcast made by KDKA, Pittsburgh, PA; 1925 : The Victor Orthophonic Victrola Phonograph was invented. A far superior product in comparison to other phonograph manufacturers was an acoustic sound design that was far superior to current offerings.

  4. Sound recording and reproduction - Wikipedia

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    Between the invention of the phonograph in 1877 and the first commercial digital recordings in the early 1970s, arguably the most important milestone in the history of sound recording was the introduction of what was then called electrical recording, in which a microphone was used to convert the sound into an electrical signal that was ...

  5. Timeline of audio formats - Wikipedia

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    Tinfoil Phonograph: In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the first recorder that could also play back Analog; sound waveform transcribed to tinfoil 1883 Piano roll: A piano roll used in a player piano Digital (vacuum-operated piano) 1886 Music Box disc 8'' disc for playback on a music box Digital (vacuum-operated music box) Late 1880s Brown Wax cylinder

  6. History of sound recording - Wikipedia

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    Ring-and-spring microphones, such as this Western Electric microphone, were common during the electrical age of sound recording c. 1925–45.. The second wave of sound recording history was ushered in by the introduction of Western Electric's integrated system of electrical microphones, electronic signal amplifiers and electromechanical recorders, which was adopted by major US record labels in ...

  7. Silvertone (brand) - Wikipedia

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    These guitars' cases had a small built-in amplifier, and the guitars themselves had very short-scale 18-fret necks, which proved popular with beginners. Similarly the Silvertone 1484 "Twin Twelve" 60-watt guitar amplifier , introduced in 1963 as an affordable beginner's amp, has gained a collectors' following, since artists like Jack White ...

  8. Phonograph - Wikipedia

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    A recording made on a sheet of tinfoil at an 1878 demonstration of Edison's phonograph in St. Louis, Missouri, has been played back by optical scanning and digital analysis. A few other early tinfoil recordings are known to survive, including a slightly earlier one that is believed to preserve the voice of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes ...

  9. Victor Orthophonic Victrola - Wikipedia

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    The "phonograph tone" is eliminated by the new recording and reproducing process. [ 2 ] A Wanamaker's ad from October 31, 1925 invited people to come to "Wanamaker's Salon of Music" and "join the throngs" who were "HEARING the new Victor Orthophonic Victrola . . . . imagining performers present . . . . blinking unbelieving eyes" and promising ...