The Phonogram (1902-07)

Page scan 00013 from The Phonogram

Record Details:

Title:
The Phonogram
Date:
1902-07
Volume:
The Phonogram (II), Issue 27
Leaf #:
00013
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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building there are eight rooms which are used for making Master Records. These rooms are separated from each other by double partitions, filled in with seaweed. Seaweed, bythe wav, is the best material for deadening sound. I 9 In these rooms the various artists do their work. On racks at one end of each room, are from three to five Phonographs, with their horns point- ing toward a spot in midair, where the singer stands. If it be a violin solo or a banjo solo or a male quartet, the arrange- ment is the same; the music produc- ing point being in a spot where the horns, if extended, would meet. Be- hind the performer, perched up on a high pedestal, is the piano, or the organ, or whatever may be the accom- panying instrument. ( To be continued .)