Timeline Vinyl Records

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Timeline vinyl records.

The phonautograph was a. Long playing records came next. Music is recorded and distributed using a variety of audio formats some of. Sep 23 1939 columbia records continued development of this technology.

In 1931 the rca victor company introduced an early version of a long playing record. A few years later berliner used a mixture of shellac to produce an even harder surface to make vinyl records. When thomas edison invented the phonograph in 1877 the playback medium was. The history of vinyl records before vinyl there was shellac.

Vinyl to be used as a material to make records is introduced as a replacement for shellac which is in short supply due to the invasion of south east asia by the japanese. 1887 emile berliner patented the gramophone which played a flat lateral cut phonograph disc. 1857 léon scott patented the phonautograph invented by édouard léon scott de martinville. The vintage record on january 27 2014 in 1930 rca victor launched the first commercially available vinyl long playing record marketed as program transcription discs.

An interactive timeline because mixing boards were not invented until 1958 gennet studios richmond in physically slid the artists closer to and farther away from the recording gramophone to create the illusion of instruments fading in and out of the recording. Made out of vulcanised rubber they were between 12 5 cm and 18 cm in diameter. Production of records was practically halted until this solution comes about. The history of vinyl by.

The vinyl revival is the renewed interest and increased sales of vinyl records or gramophone records that has been taking place in the western world since about 2007. The 45 rpm single followed. The beginning of the vinyl record the very first flat disc record was invented by emile berliner back in 1888. 1 the analogue format made of polyvinyl chloride had been the main vehicle for the commercial distribution of pop music from the 1950s until the 1980s and 1990s when they were largely replaced by the compact disc cd.

Timeline this brief historic time line illustrates major events in the recorded sound industry from the birth of the recorded sound in 1857 to the merger of the two recording industry giants columbia and victor records in 2004 under their parent companies sony and bertelsmann music group while towerrecords files for bankruptcy.