MUSC 171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Victor Talking Machine Company, Prs For Music, Song Plugger
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Thomas edison and the tinfoil cylinder, used it like a voice recorder, office machine. 1877 he cranked it and produced a sound ends up in the lab of alexander graeham bell, and he changed it by coating it in wax, was able to groove and cut into the wax, gave warmer sounds. Louis glass, the father of the juke box, didn"t call it a jukebox yet, A juke joint was a place where good and upright citizens don"t go. This early jukebox, 5/6/7 people gathered around to listen to it, actually more like music. Emile berliner with phonograph, had a round flat disc with a needle, and a cone, stamper pressed/fixed onto a rubber biscuit, and it becomes a record. Rubber, can get damaged easily, coated in shellac, harder and lasts longer, shellac record, can only hold about 3 minutes of music. Victor talking machine company, have to market to get it out to more people.
