RECORDING AND LISTENING
Thought recorded music is taken for granted today, the privilege and convenience of enjoying music without being in the presence of musicians performing live has only been available to the listening world for around a century.
From Josef Hoffman’s piano recordings onto a cylinder in Thomas Edison’s US laboratory in 1887, through electronic recording equipment in acoustically engineered studio spaces, to the latest track created at home with a computer, the story of recorded music is one of technological innovation!
FROM NEW TO NORMAL
Through the year there has been several changes both in the way we record and listen to that recorded music. The first instrument able to record music and reproduce it was Thomas Edison’s Phonograph 1877, this device reproduced the sound creating interactions in tinfoil wrapped around a grooved cylinder.
Can you imagine the quality of that recordings compared with the ones we have now?
Only 10 years later, in 1887, Emile Berliner invented both the gramophone which utilized the flat disc ( the predecesor of the vigil we all know) and a form of mass - producing copies of a recorded disc!
Do you know the difference between the Gramophone and the Gramaphone?
The Gramophone invented by Berliner in 1887 was powered by hand, was a wind-up model, the Gramaphone on the other hand, was invented in 1910, and was powered with hot air, which came up as a labour-saving alternative to the previous models.
In 1920 the electrical recording became a huge thing! It lead the traditional acoustic recording methods being replaced by superior quality electronic recording, and in 1948 the Columbia records introduced the famous LP vinyl!
In 1968 the first 8-track cartridge, the famous “cassette” that became a huge sensation to have fun in the road trips, years later came the CD in 1983, and it wasn’t until 1994 that the digital revolution started!
AS FOR TODAY, WE ALL HAVE ACCES TO ENDLESS STREAMING MUSIC,
LET'S NOT FORGET HOW SPECIAL EACH SONG WE PLAY IS!!