Word: phonographically
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King George V let it be known that all proceeds from the sale of phonograph records of his speech at the opening of the conference will be devoted to providing free radio sets for British blind...
...made known that the Gold Coast Orchestra, which is a division of the Instrumental Clubs, recently has made recordings of dance music for the Columbia Phonograph Company. "My Sweetie Turned Me Down", by Kahn and Donaldson, and "Kammenoi--Ostrow", by Rubinstein were two of the numbers recorded...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME will note the noteworthy...
Long has it been common knowledge that the phonograph and the radio were proving themselves formidable rivals to the piano. Long has American Piano unsuccessfully attempted to fight this rivalry. At the height of phonograph popularity in 1922. they bought the J. & C. Fisher Co. and Amphion Co., manufacturers of player-piano actions. Following acquisition Amphion perfected the Ampico reproducing attachments and although the manufacture of player-pianos has been practically discontinued, Ampicos are still distributed to Chickering, Knabe, Mason & Hamlin for installation in their most pretentious grands. This year American Piano added a complete line of radios to their...
...managers bear incalculable woes. One of these was voiced last week by George J. Houtain, counsel for the Theatrical Stock Managers Association. Declaring in a letter to the American Federation of Musicians that prohibitive union wages and regulations had made music scarce in stock productions, he added: "If a phonograph needed operating behind scenes, you wouldn't allow the manager or one of the company to turn it on or off. . . . It had to be done by a union musician at a full week's wage, and he wasn't allowed to play in the orchestra either...