by Val | Sep 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
There are a number of ways to classify musical instruments. In the West, they are divided into three categories of string, wind and percussion instruments. The classification used in the Folk Instrument Exhibition Room at the Min-On Music Museum follows the system...
by Val | Sep 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
1926, U.S.A. Edison first developed a disc phonograph in 1878. But it was Emile Berliner, not Edison, who developed the commercial disc machine known as the gramophone. Later, the Victor Talking Machine Company marketed the disc phonograph that Edison had originally...
by Val | Sep 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
1918, U.S.A. In 1877, the American inventor Thomas Edison unveiled one of his most original inventions: the tinfoil phonograph. This device employed a style-tipped transmitter that made impressions on a copper cylinder wrapped in tinfoil, to record and reproduce...
by Val | Sep 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
1900, Spain A decade after the invention and rising popularity of cylinder phonographs, the German-born American inventor Emile Berliner introduced a spiral grove on a flat rotating disc in 1887, and called his invention the gramophone. At the turn of the century,...
by Val | Sep 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
1919, U.S.A. Thomas Edison is credited with the invention of the cylinder phonograph, which used a copper cylinder wrapped in tinfoil to record and reproduce sound. Chichester Bell and other inventors followed Edison and made various improvements to the phonograph:...
by Val | Sep 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
1900, Germany play pause stop mute unmute max volume repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. Among mechanical organs, Welte Orchestrions were the premiere...
