The Phonogram (1901-01)

Page scan 00010 from The Phonogram

Record Details:

Title:
The Phonogram
Date:
1901-01
Volume:
The Phonogram (II), Issue 21
Leaf #:
00010
Language:
English
Subjects:
honograph,"Phonograph History, Thomas Edison","National Phonograph Company","Sound Recording History
Collection:
Recorded Sound
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 20, 2022
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43 JANUARY 1902 but I prefer my Phonograph outfit and think it is away ahead of any music which does not require skill upon the part of the performer. Well to get back to the gram-o-phone , the thing which impressed me most was the dreadful, grating, scratching Noise. I was sure it was noise and I looked up the word “scratch” in Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary. Here is the definition : “ Scratch—To rub and tear the surface with something sharp or ragged,” etc. Now, I think that definition means, that scratching is a noise, and my point is that instead of calling the disc reproducer a “sound box,” it should be called a * 1 noise box. * * There can be no scratch to a wax record ; it could not stand it, for if you were to scratch it with “something sharp and ragged” the record could not be played successfully again, and I have wax rec- ords which I have had for two years and you could not buy them of me now. For instance “ Romanza,” played by Leo A. Zimmerman, with accompaniment by Hager’s Military Orchestra. The record is so old that the Edison Company discontinued it in their catalogue, but my record is as good as the day I bought it. W. J. Killea. One half the fun of owning a Phonograph is making your own records. I