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Welcome
to the:
Gramophone
Gazette
Vol. 1 No.
1 April 2002
© By the World of
Gramophones
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Editors
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Welcome to the first edition of
the Gramophone Gazette. We are proud to present members of the
Gramophone Project, icons in their field to offer advice, expierence,
and knowledge into the history and future of recorded music and
the machines that made it happen. We will try and do honor to
the history of music the best we can. It has been a long haul to open this site and yet we have heard visitors
say, "A site like this has been needed for a long time,and
you are doing it right" Please keep up the support and continue
to help us make this the site to see! If you would like to submit
a story and or be part of the gramophone Project contact
the staff of the World of Gramophones. We are at your service.
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The Birth of the
Recording Industry
by: Allen Koenigsberg
The U.S. Patent Office was linked in many ways with the history
of the phonograph, but none more curious than an incident that
occurred in 1890. In January of that year, the manager of the
Ohio Phonograph Company in Cleveland visited one of the oldest
residents of the state. The man's name was Horatio Perry and he
had reached the remarkable age of one hundred years. Looking for
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machine, the manager convinced Mr. Perry to record a talk about
his youth nearly a century before. The effort must have been exhausting
as Mr. Perry died soon afterward, but the record contained the
reminiscences of a man who was born in the second year of Washington’s
first term. Although the wax cylinder was carefully placed in
an office safe, it has since disappeared. But the story is a tantalizing
reminder that few areas of inventive activity allow us
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Collecting Vintage
Children's Records
by: The Expert Peter Muldavin of http://www.Kiddierekordking.com
What Is A Vintage "Kiddie Record"?
If you are old enough, do you remember listening to 78-rpm
"kiddie" records when you were growing up? Or maybe
your parents did. Being a 'child of the late 40's and 50's,
I do. It is this fond memory and the nostalgia for them, which
started me off on a  collection
in uncharted waters-vintage children's records. A majority of
people reading this article who grew
up in the post
World War II years had a collection of children's records. It
is surprising, therefore, in this current era of nostalgia craze
and "anything is collectable", that the hobby of collecting
old kiddie records has not yet been established. No
comprehensive book on the subject has been published. That situation
will hopefully be resolved when I publish the first complete
discography and price guide of vintage kiddie records in the
fairly near future.
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The Birth
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to observe the lives of human beings with such immediacy, back nearly
to the beginning of American society. Still, even in the 19th century,
the phonograph had its precursors, which  pointed
the way to a simpler method of capturing sound. As early as 1806,
the English physician and naturalist Thomas Young, was able to register
the minute vibrations of a tuning fork on a rotating drum covered
with wax. But what did he intend to do with this clever device?
Using an established frequency, he could easily measure exceedingly
small units of time. There was no mention of making the sound come
alive. Then, in 1859, a French librarian and typesetter named Leon
Scott improved the machine, which had since become known as the
"vibrograph," so that it would record the human voice
as well, and make vocal sounds visible to the eye. His laboratory
models, which he called the phonautograph, sold in limited quantities
for 500 francs, and one was purchased by Joseph Henry in 1866 for
the Smithsonian Institution, and is still on display. According
to unverified reports, Scott had visited Abraham Lincoln in the
White House three years before and made a recording of his voice
on a piece of paper covered with lampblack; If it
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