List of phonograph manufacturers
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An advertisement for the Columbia Grafonola
This is a list of phonograph manufacturers. The phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone, record player or turntable, is a device introduced in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.
Phonograph manufacturers
A Lyric Phonograph Company phonograph
An RCA Victor Special Portable Phonograph, circa 1935
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- Abbingdon Music Research
- Akai (recording)
- Francisca Nel
- 91 days
- Sinead Miller
- Alphason
- AnalogueWorks[1]
- Audio-Technica
- Bang & Olufsen
- Birmingham Sound Reproducers hi world
- Clearaudio Electronic
- Collaro
- Columbia Graphophone Company
- Columbia Gramophone Company [2][3] – The Columbia Graphonola went into production in the United States in 1911[4]
- Columbia Phonograph Company [5][6]
- Crescent Industries
- Connoisseur
- Dansette
- Denon
- Dual
- Garrard Engineering and Manufacturing Company
- Gemini Sound Products
- Goldring
- Gramophone Company
- Graphophone
- Harman Kardon
- IGB Eletrônica
- Lenco Turntables
- Linn Products
- London Decca
- Luxman
- Lyric Phonograph Company [7]
- Michell[8]
- Musical Fidelity
- NAD Electronics
- Nakamichi
- National Phonograph Company [9] – established by the inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison
- North American Phonograph Company [5][10]
- Pacific Phonograph Company – a subsidiary of the North American Phonograph Company[10]
- Numark Industries
- Ortofon
- Panasonic
- Pink Triangle – became defunct in 2003[11]
- Pioneer Corporation
- Pioneer India
- Pro-Ject
- RCA
- Realistic
- Rega Research
- Roksan Audio
- Sansui Electric
- SME Limited
- Sonora Phonograph Company [12]
- Stanton Magnetics
- Technics
- Thorens
- Transcriptors[13]
- Vestax
- U-Turn Audio [14]
- Victor Talking Machine Company
- V-M Corporation- Voice of Music
- VPI Industries
- Webster-Chicago -Webcor
- Wilson Benesch
- Win Laboratories[15]
- Yamaha Corporation
- Yamaha Pro Audio
- A Dual P 53 record player with 1210 turntable
- An advertisement for Edison New Standard Phonograph, 1898
- A Numark Industries TTX-1 turntable
- A Pro-Ject 1xpression Comfort turntable
- A Vestax PDX-3000 DJ turntable
By region
United States
In 1890 in the United States, many phonograph companies existed that had state- and region-based names, such as Alabama Phonograph Company, Colorado and Utah Phonograph Company, Kansas Phonograph Company, New England Phonograph Company, etc.[16]
See also
References
- ↑ "AnalogueWorks - British Turntables". analogueworks.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
- ↑ Meyer Brothers Druggist. C.F.G. Meyer. 1917. p. 118.
- ↑ Mitchell, J.A. (1918). Life. Life. p. 4.
- ↑ Welch, W.L.; Burt, L.B.S. (1994). From Tinfoil to Stereo: The Acoustic Years of the Recording Industry, 1877-1929. University Press of Florida. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-8130-1317-6.
- 1 2 Gaudreault, A. (2009). American Cinema 1890-1909: Themes and Variations. Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema. Rutgers University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-8135-4644-5.
- ↑ Burgess, R.J. (2014). The History of Music Production. Oxford University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-19-938501-0.
- ↑ The Phonoscope. Phonoscope Publishing Company. 1899. p. 21.
- ↑ The Absolute Sound. Absolute Sound, Limited. 1995.
- ↑ Thomas A. Edison, Inc; Co, National Phonograph (1910). Edison Amberola Monthly. Pennant Litho, Incorporated. p. 14.
- 1 2 Kenney, William Howland (1999). Recorded Music in American Life : The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945. Oxford University Press, USA. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-0-19-802604-4.
- ↑ "Sad Day For The Hi Fi Industry!". Hi-Fi News. September 2003. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
- ↑ Douglas, A. (1999). Radio Manufacturers of the 1920s, Volume 3. Sonoran Pub. pp. 106–107. ISBN 978-1-886606-04-3.
- ↑ Gramophone. General Gramophone Publications Limited. 1978.
- ↑ http://www.cnet.com/news/u-turn-orbit-an-audiophile-quality-turntable-for-179/
- ↑ Bonnier Corporation (July 1978). Popular Science. Bonnier Corporation. pp. 50–. ISSN 0161-7370.
- ↑ Proceedings of First Annual Convention of Local Phonograph Companies of the United States Held at Chicago, May 28 and 29, 1890. Phonograph Printing Company. 1890. p. 98.
Further reading
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- Kennedy, R.; McNutt, R. (1999). Little Labels--big Sound: Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music. Indiana University Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-253-33548-7.
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