Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...
...days before the phonograph, composers who wanted to have their music preserved for future generations had to write it down on paper. Now, thanks to recording machines, music can be engraved directly on the surface of wax discs, preserved as permanently as sculpture. The best swing music is not written down; it is improvised. Before the phonographic era, improvisation was as impermanent as a cloud of smoke. Today the woodnotes wild of Benny Goodman's clarinet can be made as durable as a Chopin nocturne, and copies can be distributed by the thousands...
...bands, 8,200 personally invited Republicans from twelve States and 11,000 uninvited Republicans. Formal purpose of the occasion was to launch the Republican Congressional campaign of 1938. The host, who laid out $30,000 for the party, was buoyant Homer E. Capehart, "the daddy of the electric automatic phonograph," now vice president & sales director of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., after building up his own Capehart Corp., which now runs without...
...officials can dive at a moment's notice. To avoid confusion as to what is the right way to number the floors' of a building underground, each floor has been given, not a number, but a color. The shelter has a 1,000-gallon water supply, a phonograph "well-stocked with records of comforting melodies...
Once a man contracts the habit of collecting phonograph records, it usually sticks like dandruff. Last year RCA Victor's canny Advertising Manager Thomas F. Joyce decided that: 1) the phonograph industry needed more incurable record collectors, 2) many potential incurables were being kept from record-collecting by the high price of good phonographs. On the market, but little appreciated by the public at the time, was a gadget known as a Record Player, which could convert any radio into a practical, high-fidelity phonograph. If, argued Advertising Manager Joyce, more Record Players could be sold, everybody who owned...