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The Gramophone Company was founded in April 1898 by William Barry Owen and Edmund Trevor Lloyd Wynne Williams, commissioned by Emil Berliner, in London. [ 1] Owen was acting as agent for Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone record, whilst Williams provided the finances. Most of the company's early discs were made in Hanover, Germany at a ...
Columbia Graphophone Co. Ltd. was one of the earliest gramophone companies in the United Kingdom . Founded in 1917 as an offshoot of the American Columbia Phonograph Company, it became an independent British-owned company in 1922 in a management buy-out after the parent company went into receivership. In 1925, it acquired a controlling interest ...
Phonograph manufacturers. A Lyricera Phonograph Company phonograph. An RCA Victor Special Portable Phonograph, circa 1935. A Technics turntable. A Victor Talking Machine. Abbingdon Music Research. Acoustic Research. Acoustic Signature [ 1] Akai.
The Specialists' Shopping Centre was the oldest shopping centre on Orchard Road, a shopping area of Singapore. The largest tenants were Hotel Phoenix Singapore and John Little. The Visitor's Guide of Singapore described it as "revered". [ 1] It was demolished to make way for newer developments in 2008.
Phonograph. Illustration of a typical modern turntable: here showing the curved tonearm with a headshell at the end, under which lies the magnetic cartridge and its attached stylus touching down on the grooves of a black record placed on the turntable's platter. A phonograph, later called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic ...
The SSO is part of the Singapore Symphony Group, which also manages the Singapore Symphony Choruses, the Singapore National Youth Orchestra (SNYO), the VCHpresents chamber music series, the Singapore International Piano Festival and the biennial National Piano and Violin Competition. It achieved third place in 2021 for Gramophone's Orchestra of ...
Phonograph record. A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English ), a vinyl record (for later varieties only), or simply a record or vinyl is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near the outside edge and ends near ...
Gramophone (known as The Gramophone prior to 1970) is a magazine published monthly [1] in London, devoted to classical music, particularly to reviews of recordings. It was founded in 1923 by the Scottish author Compton Mackenzie [ 2 ] who continued to edit the magazine until 1961. [ 3 ]