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Antique Columbia Graphophone Model BK Cylinder Player Phonograph

Posted by : Laila August 16, 2016

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The phonograph is a tool developed in 1877 for the mechanical saving and reproduction 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 noted as matching physical deviations of the spiral groove etched, etched, incised, or impressed in to the surface of your spinning disk or cylinder, called a "record". To recreate the audio, the surface is similarly rotated while a playback stylus traces the groove and is therefore vibrated by it, very faintly reproducing the saved sound. In early acoustic phonographs, the stylus vibrated a diaphragm which produced sound waves which were coupled to the open air through a flaring horn, or right to the listener's ears through stethoscope-type earphones. In later electric phonographs (also called record players (since 1940s) or, lately, turntables), the motions of the stylus are changed into an analogous electrical power signal by the transducer, then turned back to sound with a loudspeaker.

The phonograph was developed in 1877 by Thomas Edison. While other inventors experienced produced devices which could record sounds, Edison's phonograph was the first ever to have the ability to reproduce the registered sound. His phonograph originally recorded audio onto a tinfoil sheet twisted around a rotating cylinder. A stylus giving an answer to appear vibrations produced an and down or hill-and-dale groove in the foil up. 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 about the record.

Within the 1890s, Emile Berliner initiated the change from phonograph cylinders to toned discs with a spiral groove running from the periphery to near the center. Later improvements through the full years included modifications to the turntable and its own drive system, the stylus or needle, and the equalization and audio systems.

The disc phonograph record was the dominating audio recording format throughout the majority of the 20th hundred years. From mid-1980s on, phonograph use on a standard record player declined sharply due to rise of the cassette tape, compact disk and other digital saving formats. Data remain a popular format for some audiophiles and DJs. Vinyl records are still used by some DJs and musicians in their concert performances. Musicians continue steadily to release their recordings on vinyl records. The original recordings of music artists are re-issued on vinyl sometimes.

Using terminology is not homogeneous over the English-speaking world (see below). In more modern usage, the playback device is categorised as a "turntable", "record player", or "record changer". When used in conjunction with a mixer as part of a DJ setup, turntables are often called "decks".

The word phonograph ("sound writing") was derived from the Greek words ???? (phon?, "sound" or "voice") and ????? (graph?, "writing"). The similar related terms gramophone (from the Greek ?????? gramma "letter" and ???? ph?n? "words") and graphophone have similar root meanings. The root base were already familiar from existing 19th-century words such as photo ("light writing"), telegraph ("distant writing"), and cell phone ("distant sound"). The new term may have been influenced by the prevailing words phonographic and phonography, which referred to something of phonetic shorthand; in 1852 THE BRAND NEW York Times taken an ad for "Professor Webster's phonographic class", and in 1859 the brand new York State Teachers Connection tabled a motion to "employ a phonographic recorder" to record its meetings.

Probably, any device used to track record audio or reproduce documented sound could be called a type of "phonograph", however in common practice the portrayed expression has come to suggest historic systems of sound recording, affecting audio-frequency modulations of any physical groove or track.

In the past due 19th and early 20th generations, "Phonograph", "Gramophone", "Graphophone", "Zonophone" and the like were still brands specific to various designers of sometimes very different (i.e. cylinder and disk) machines; so substantial use was manufactured from the common term "talking machine", in print especially. "Talking machine" had earlier been used to make reference to complicated devices which produced a crude imitation of speech, by simulating the workings of the vocal cords, tongue, and mouth - a potential way to obtain misunderstandings both and today then.

In British English, "gramophone" may make reference to any sound-reproducing machine using disc records, which were introduced and popularized in the united kingdom by the Gramophone Company. Originally, "gramophone" was a proprietary trademark of this 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 that this had turn into a generic term; it has been so used in the UK & most Commonwealth countries since. The term "phonograph" was usually restricted to machines that used cylinder records.

"Gramophone" generally referred to a wind-up machine. After the intro of the softer vinyl data, 33 1/3-rpm LPs (long-playing records) and 45-rpm "single" or two-song documents, and EPs (extended-play recordings), the common name became "record player" or "turntable". Usually the home record player was part of something that included a radio (radiogram) and, later, may also play audiotape cassettes. From about 1960, such a system began to be described as a "hi-fi" (high-fidelity, monophonic) or a "stereo" (most systems being stereophonic by the mid-1960s).

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