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From tinfoil to stereo : the acoustic years of the recording industry, 1877-1929
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From tinfoil to stereo : the acoustic years of the recording industry, 1877-1929

Author: Walter L Welch; Leah Brodbeck Stenzel Burt; Oliver Read
Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1994.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Walter L Welch; Leah Brodbeck Stenzel Burt; Oliver Read
ISBN: 0813013178 9780813013176
OCLC Number: 29952159
Notes: Rev. ed. of: From tin foil to stereo / Oliver Read and Walter Welch. 1976.
Description: xii, 212 p., [30] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Before the phonograph -- The Edison tinfoil phonograph -- The North American Phonograph Company and the Bell-Tainter graphophone -- The local phonograph companies -- The Edison talking-doll phonograph -- The new graphophone -- The Bettini story -- The concert cylinders -- The celluloid cylinder and molding patents -- The coin-slot phonograph industry -- Advent of the discs -- The international situation -- Discs versus cylinders -- Internal-horn talking machines and the phonograph -- The Edison diamond disc phonograph -- Tone-test reverberations and the vertical-cut bandwagon -- Motion pictures and sound recordings.
Responsibility: Walter L. Welch and Leah Brodbeck Stenzel Burt.

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