Word: phonograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year ten times as many phonograph records are being sold as ten years ago. To catch the buyer's eye, record companies are turning some strange handsprings. Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel can be heard singing Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' in one album, and in another, Frank ("The Voice") Sinatra, who can't read music, conducts a symphony orchestra in Alec Wilder's jazzy suites (Columbia, 6 sides...
With the quest for the American dollar at a new pitch of intensity, cities all over the United States are beginning to fill up with European goods of all shapes and varieties--not the least of them being phonograph records. Imported records, traditionally the province of two stores in New York City, have suddenly been made available to Bostonians and even to residents of the Harvard Square area...
...Phonograph albums-like books, lithographs and neckties-were on sale last week in limited editions. A new company called Concert Hall Society, Inc. announced that it would turn out only 2,000 copies of its albums. For $105, Concert Hall promised twelve albums of previously unrecorded music by Henry Purcell, Beethoven (Scottish Songs, sung by Balladeer Richard Dyer-Bennet), Brahms, Stravinsky, Béla Bartók and others...
...Fisher phonograph has a range so wide (20 to 12,000 cycles) that it can reproduce almost all sounds within the span of human hearing. The narrower ranges of most other machines (50 to 7,000) do not reproduce the full resonance of a symphony orchestra, fail to catch the high overtones of a flute. The popular-priced
Tall, greying Avery Fisher, 40, is an amateur violinist who built his first high fidelity phonograph in 1935 because he wanted a machine that would reproduce recorded music exactly as it was played. His set so impressed his friends that two years later he gave up an advertising job to build phonographs. Despite his present rush in business, Avery Fisher plans little expansion. Says he: "A really good machine can't be made on an assembly line...