Saturday, September 17, 2011

Phonographic Memories

By Anne A. Kaufman


I love music and I have lots of youthful recollections concerning it. My dad and mom love the timeless tunes, they could move to the beat in our living room even without shoes on. I had watched the two of them swing to the old songs of Glenn Miller, Guy Lombardo and Sinatra. My mom and dad are the top jiggerbuggers there is. During Saturday nights, my parents had get-togethers in the house and the music would keep playing after I retreated to my bed. As I rested my back on the bed, the beat of the music and the laughter of visitors below were what I listened to. Dozing off to dreamland that way was very enjoyable. From time to time they would allow me to hang around even during late hours and look at them dance, and in my father's arms, I moved to the sound, also. I will never forget those delightful experiences and they will forever be valued in my heart. Possessing my own phonograph was what my parents wished for me and they gifted me one as I got older. My phonograph sung out the music of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, the Beatles and especially Motown because it's what I like the most. Mr. Edison created the phonograph and because of him, I get to play great music of great musicians and enjoy it a lot. Well, kudos to you!

When Mr. Thomas Alva Edison made a recording of the phrase taken from the nursery rhyme "Mary had a little lamb" in 1877, in the month of October, this pioneered the procedures of recording sounds for man. The community eventually dwindling interest on Mr. Edison's creation came as a surprise. From the invention to forming a prototype, to conducting an illustration at the New York's Scientific American, the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company was then established in the year 1878. Mass production of the recording playing gadget started, and many were promoted causing the phonograph an instant sensation. The interest of society nevertheless weakened after all of it. After the phonograph's downfall, Edison toiled on discovering the incandescent bulb instead.

Perhaps, Thomas Edison thought it as a challenge when Alexander Graham Bell, with his cousin Chichester A. Bell and a scientist and instrument builder whose name was Charles Sumner Tainter submitted an application for a patent on his phonograph in 1886, on May 4th. As a result, it made Edison act on improving his machine.Bell and Tainter approached Edison for a likely collaboration, on the contrary Edison would not hear of it ( joking aside), snubbed and made a better, more developed style of the machine itself. For his developed invention to sell in the market, Edison formed the Edison Phonograph Company in 1887 on the 8th of October. Well, you can forget about the rest.

The record playing instrument went on to advance, and instead of cylinders utilized for recording, the generation of the record, LP's launched a totally new world. The improved version made better sounds and the play time was lengthy and had minimal intermissions.

Phonograph turntables nowadays are still obtainable in the market. Do you still have those records from your father and mother or yours maybe? I still keep my parents' favorite records as well as my own Elvis compilation and all of them still produce music and sound terrific also. A phonograph with a radio, cassette player and recorder - these are the latest phonographs that you can have nowadays that provide enjoyment in various ways.You can also obtain additional or replacement needles for them.

It is always an enigma to me every time the needle strokes the record, it just sends me back in the past, during the days when everyone was in a joyous mood moving their bodies to the beat and being entertained. It was such a joyful memory.




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