Mr. Sivan's Speaking Watch with the Edison Phonograph inside...
It's beautiful, it's compact, it's electric, it's unique and it's almost 100 years old. One of the more…
Thomas Edison invented the Phonograph in 1877: a handy tabletop device that could play music for a small…
Photographer Art Kane took the most wonderful photograph in jazz history, featuring 57 of the best jazz…
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When college student and roots music fan Lance Ledbetter grew frustrated at the near impossibility of…
Among the wax cylinders in UC Berkeley’s Hearst Museum of Anthropology are songs and spoken-word recordings…
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Phonograph. Gramophone. Graphophone. In the popular mind there is considerable misapprehension…
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On Thursday (10/19) and Friday (10/20) this week, Cornell University will celebrate the 40th anniversary…
Flood of popular melodies is set loose in London court to horror of attaches and delight of spectators!…
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Collecting records might be a notoriously expensive endeavour, but right now hundreds of thousands of…