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Antique Phonographs

Posted by : Laila September 01, 2016

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Clearaudio Electronic antique phonograph

The phonograph is a device created in 1877 for the mechanical reproduction and tracking of sound. In its later forms it is also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name since c. 1900). The sound vibration waveforms are registered as equivalent physical deviations of an spiral groove engraved, etched, incised, or impressed in to the surface of a revolving disc or cylinder, called a "record". To recreate the sound, the surface is in the same way rotated while a playback stylus traces the groove and is also therefore vibrated by it, very reproducing the registered sound faintly. In early acoustic phonographs, the stylus vibrated a diaphragm which produced sound waves that have been coupled to the open air by using a flaring horn, or right to the listener's ears through stethoscope-type earphones. In later electric phonographs (also known as record players (since 1940s) or, lately, turntables), the motions of the stylus are converted into an analogous electro-mechanical signal by a transducer, then converted back into sound by the loudspeaker.

The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. While other inventors possessed produced devices that can record looks, Edison's phonograph was the first ever to be able to reproduce the registered audio. His phonograph originally recorded sound onto a tinfoil sheet covered around a spinning cylinder. A stylus giving an answer to sound vibrations produced an along or hill-and-dale groove in the foil. Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory made several improvements in the 1880s, like the use of wax-coated cardboard cylinders, and a cutting stylus that moved laterally in a "zig zag" groove surrounding the record.

Within the 1890s, Emile Berliner initiated the change from phonograph cylinders to level discs with a spiral groove operating from the periphery to near to the center. Later improvements over time included changes to the turntable and its own drive system, the needle or stylus, and the audio and equalization systems.

The disc phonograph record was the dominant audio tracking format throughout the majority of the 20th century. Through the mid-1980s on, phonograph use on a standard record player declined sharply due to rise of the cassette tape, compact disc and other digital tracking formats. Information are a well liked format for a few audiophiles and DJs still. Vinyl records are still employed by some DJs and musicians in their concert performances. Musicians continue to release their recordings on vinyl records. The original recordings of musicians are occasionally re-issued on vinyl fabric.

Using terminology is not consistent over the English-speaking world (see below). In newer usage, the playback device is called a "turntable", "record player", or "record changer". When found in conjunction with a mixer as part of a DJ set up, turntables tend to be called "decks".

The word phonograph ("sound writing") was produced from the Greek words ???? (phon?, "sound" or "voice") and ????? (graph?, "writing"). The similar related terms gramophone (from the Greek ?????? gramma "letter" and ???? ph?n? "speech") and graphophone have similar root meanings. The roots were already familiar from existing 19th-century words such as photo ("light writing"), telegraph ("distant writing"), and phone ("distant sound"). The new term may have been inspired by the existing words phonographic and phonography, which described something of phonetic shorthand; in 1852 The New York Times taken an ad for "Professor Webster's phonographic class", and in 1859 the New York State Teachers Association tabled a action to "hire a phonographic recorder" to record its meetings.

Probably, any device used to track record sound or reproduce recorded audio could be called a kind of "phonograph", but in common practice the term has come to mean traditional solutions of reasonable tracking, relating audio-frequency modulations of any physical groove or track.

In the overdue 19th and early 20th ages, "Phonograph", "Gramophone", "Graphophone", "Zonophone" and the like were still brands specific to various creators of sometimes completely different (i.e. cylinder and disk) machines; so significant use was manufactured from the common term "talking machine", especially in print. "Talking machine" had earlier been used to refer to complicated devices which produced a crude imitation of speech, by simulating the workings of the vocal cords, tongue, and lips - a potential source of confusion both then and today.

In British English, "gramophone" may make reference to any sound-reproducing machine using disk records, that have been popularized and introduced in the UK by the Gramophone Company. Originally, "gramophone" was a proprietary trademark of that company and any use of the name by competing makers of disc records was vigorously prosecuted in the courts, but in 1910 an English court decision decreed which it had become a generic term; it has been so used in the united kingdom & most Commonwealth countries since. The term "phonograph" was usually restricted to machines that used cylinder records.

"Gramophone" generally referred to a wind-up machine. Following the release of the softer vinyl fabric files, 33 1/3-rpm LPs (long-playing details) and 45-rpm "single" or two-song information, and EPs (extended-play recordings), the normal name became "record player" or "turntable". Often the home record player was part of something that included a radio (radiogram) and, later, might play audiotape cassettes also. From about 1960, such a system began to certainly be a "hi-fi" (high-fidelity, monophonic) or a "stereo" (most systems being stereophonic by the mid-1960s).

In Australian English, "record player" was the term; "turntable" was a more specialized term; "gramophone" was limited to the old mechanised (i.e., wind-up) players; and "phonograph" was used just as British English.