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An advertisement for Edison New Standard Phonograph, 1898 An advertisement for the Columbia Grafonola. This is a list of phonograph manufacturers.The phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone, record player or turntable, is a device introduced in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.
In 1969, Matsushita released it as the Technics SP-10, [64] the first direct-drive turntable on the market. [65] The most influential direct-drive turntable was the Technics SL-1200, [66] which, following the spread of turntablism in hip hop culture, became the most widely-used turntable in DJ culture for several decades. [66]
Twin turntables were illustrated in the BBC Handbook in 1929, and were advertised for sale in Gramophone magazine in 1931. [3] There was an obvious need for such a setup when the normal music format was 78rpm records that played for five minutes at most and a classical symphony came in a box which might contain ten discs or more.
1925 : The Victor Orthophonic Victrola Phonograph was invented. A far superior product in comparison to other phonograph manufacturers was an acoustic sound design that was far superior to current offerings. 1926 : Jorge Mager presented his electronic instruments, in the Spharaphon line; 1927 : Pierre Toulon and Krugg Bass invent the Cellulophone
David Joseph Smith (April 2, 1950 – May 31, 2022) was an American engineer and founder of the synthesizer company Sequential. Smith created the first polyphonic synthesizer with fully programmable memory, the Prophet-5 , which had a major impact on the music industry. [ 2 ]
He introduced turntable techniques from Jamaican dub music, [8] while developing new techniques made possible by the direct-drive turntable technology of the Technics SL-1100, which he used for the first sound system he set up after emigrating to New York. [13]
Early belt-drive turntables were unsuitable for turntablism, since they had a slow start-up time, and they were prone to wear-and-tear and breakage, as the belt would break from backspin or scratching. [127] The first direct-drive turntable was invented by Shuichi Obata, an engineer at Matsushita (now Panasonic), [128] based in Osaka, Japan.
Turntable, the circular rotating platform of a phonograph (a.k.a. record player, gramophone, turntable, etc.), a device for playing sound recordings.; Turntablism, using the device as a modern musical instrument