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Thursday, 27 October 2011

Music Memories from an Old Phonograph

By Gladys E. West


I can still bring to mind so many treasured events of my younger years and music has been a part of it. My mother and father love the timeless tunes, they could swing to the beat in our living room even without shoes on. I had witnessed both of them move to the old music of Glenn Miller, Guy Lombardo and Sinatra. I have yet to see an individual who can out dance my mom and dad. Mom and dad constantly held social gatherings at the house each Saturday night. Even after I went to bed, I still heard the music playing and it would continue for hours. I could hear the beating sounds and the tittering resonating in the walls of the house as I lie on bed.It was a magnificent means to drift off into paradise. At times my mom and dad would agree to me staying up late and look at them move to the sound, and in my dad's arms, I moved to the sound, too. Those experiences are invaluable which my heart will never forget. My dad and mom felt that I ought to have my own phonograph when I grew older and they provide me with one. My phonograph produced the music of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, the Beatles and above all Motown because it's my favorite. I am grateful to you Mr. Edison, for your machine that has provided us with hours of enjoyment and entertainment.

Mankind was opened up to documented sound due to Mr. Thomas Alva Edison's experimentation. He did it sometime in 1877 during October by making a recording of the phrase from the nursery rhyme, "Mary had a little lamb". The people ultimately lessening interest on Thomas Edison's innovation was a shocker. From the invention to generating an archetype, to doing an exhibition at the New York's Scientific American, the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company was subsequently set up by the year 1878. Construction of the phonographs started, and several were marketed causing it an immediate success. The appeal of the public nevertheless wore off after everything that it has accomplished. After the phonograph's demise, Edison worked on making the incandescent bulb instead.

Perhaps, Edison was challenged the day Alexander Graham Bell, with his cousin Chichester A. Bell and a scientist and instrument builder named Charles Sumner Tainter requested for a patent on his machine in 1886, on the 4th day of May. So, it made Edison act on enhancing his instrument. Edison refused hearing Bell and Tainter's suggestion on working on the task of developing the device a partnership because he made a decision to work on it himself. For his enhanced invention to sell in the market, Edison set up the Edison Phonograph Company on October 8, 1887. Well, you can forget about the rest.

From the cylinder phonograph to the invention of the LP record or long-playing record, a new genre was opened and this attests that phonographs never ceased improving during the years.The sound was finer, played longer with lesser disturbances.

These days, if you still possess records that you like to put on, phonograph turntables are still present in the market.I have my old Elvis records, a number of my parent's favorite records and they still sound wonderful.Some of the recent phonographs have radios, cassette players and recorders incorporated, therefore you obtain the best of all worlds.You can also acquire extra or substitute needles for them.

The best memories just keep coming back every time I put on the old records on that phonograph of mine. That phonograph just gives me such glee and enjoyment.




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