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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]
The Victor Orthophonic Victrola, first demonstrated publicly in 1925, was the first consumer phonograph designed specifically to play electrically recorded phonograph records. The combination was recognized as a major step forward in sound reproduction.
Silvertone is a brand created and promoted by Sears for its line of consumer electronics and musical instruments from 1916 to 1972. [1] The rights to the Silvertone brand were purchased by South Korean corporation Samick Music [3] in 2001. Samick made new musical instruments under the Silvertone brand and relaunched some historic models.
Shure Inc. is an audio products corporation headquartered in the USA. It was founded by Sidney N. Shure in Chicago, Illinois, in 1925 as a supplier of radio parts kits. The company became a manufacturer of consumer and professional audio-electronics including microphones, wireless microphone systems, phonograph cartridges, discussion systems, mixers, and digital signal processing.
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. Phonographs can also specifically refer to machines that only play Phonograph cylinder s, the gramophone is an advanced version of the phonograph that only plays disc ...
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
Later improvements through the years included modifications to the turntable and its drive system, stylus, pickup system, and the sound and equalization systems. The disc phonograph record was the dominant commercial audio distribution format throughout most of the 20th century, and phonographs became the first example of home audio that people ...
The first model was the Garrard 301. Oil and grease bearing versions were made. The later 401 was nearly identical mechanically, but with a redesigned exterior, more powerful motor, slightly different eddy current braking speed control and different turntable thrust bearing.