Phonograph

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Technology

Phonograph · In 1877, Thomas Edison built, in his laboratory in Menlo Park, a device that could capture and play back sound. A needle scratched the vibrations of a voice into a layer of tinfoil, later into a wax cylinder. For the first time, you could hear music without a musician standing in the room. The cylinders were hard to copy and sounded thin, but they turned a performance into something that you could keep, sell and take with you. Brass bands, popular songs and recitations were the first music to be sold in this way.

Listening

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  The Preacher and the Bear · Arthur Collins, 1912
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  Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis · Billy Murray, 1904
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  Mary Had a Little Lamb · Thomas Edison, 1927

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See also

• Gramophone and the 78 rpm record
• Tin Pan Alley
• March music and brass bands