Music Makers Phonograph Museum Journey

[@Troupee-Lennon]

Outstanding collection of Phonographs and Gramophones historical of years gone by ye preserved these gorgeous antique matches thanks for sharing 👍 😀 🤛

[@musicmakersmuseum1349]

We are glad you enjoyed the collection. Thank you for taking the time to comment.

[@oliverw3646]

Magnificent collection. Thank you for preserving these delightful machines.

[@musicmakersmuseum1349]

Our pleasure!

[@musicmakersmuseum1349]

Thank you Juliet for sharing your comment. Your great-grandfather is important in Media Recording history. For those who may not be familiar with his work, Emile Berliner in the mid-1880s was inspired by a button press and used it to invent the 78 RPM flat disc records. These records competed with cylinder phonograph records (think records shaped like a roll of toilet paper). The Brown Wax Cylinders, which both Columbia and Edison Phonograph Companies produced, were popular from 1895-1901 but each cylinder produced had to be individually recorded by the artist. Berliner's records, like buttons, could be massed produced. It would be 1902 before Edison produced the Gold-Moulded Cylinders, which would be massed produced with molds and contained traces of gold. Elridge Johnson and the Victor Talking Machine Company made improvements to Berliner's flat disc records. In the end, people liked the flat records for storage and it muscled out all cylinder production. When you think of Vinyl today, you can thank Emile Berliner for those flat records:)

[@danielarick2105]

Edison came up with the brown wax cylinder

[@musicmakersmuseum1349]

Yes, Edison sure did. Then Alexander Graham Bell created some competition for him.

[@julietcunningham852]

@@musicmakersmuseum1349 Actually, the mass-producable disc record was developed by my great-grandfather, Emile Berliner.

[@musicmakersmuseum1349]

@@julietcunningham852 Thank you Juliet for sharing your comment. Your great-grandfather is important in Media Recording history. For those who may not be familiar with his work, Emile Berliner in the mid-1880s was inspired by a button press and used it to invent the 78 RPM flat disc records. These records competed with cylinder phonograph records (think records shaped like a roll of toilet paper). The Brown Wax Cylinders, which both Columbia and Edison Phonograph Companies produced, were popular from 1895-1901 but each cylinder produced had to be individually recorded by the artist. Berliner's records, like buttons, could be massed produced. It would be 1902 before Edison produced the Gold-Moulded Cylinders, which would be massed produced with molds and contained traces of gold. Elridge Johnson and the Victor Talking Machine Company made improvements to Berliner's flat disc records. In the end, people liked the flat records for storage and it muscled out all cylinder production. When you think of Vinyl today, you can thank Emile Berliner for those flat records:)