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  2. Dick Griffey - Wikipedia

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    Richard Gilbert Griffey (November 16, 1938 – September 24, 2010) was an American record producer and music promoter who founded SOLAR Records, a RAS acronym for "Sound of Los Angeles Records". The label played a major role in developing a funk -oriented blend of disco , R&B and soul music during the 1970s and 1980s.

  3. John Wood (record producer) - Wikipedia

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    After first working for Decca recording studios Wood honed his skills at London-based Levy Sound and Oriole studios before he and Geoff Frost opened Sound Techniques during the winter of 1964. The studios were housed within a converted dairy in Old Church Street , Chelsea, and soon went on to become one of the country's first independent ...

  4. Phonograph - Wikipedia

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    A phonograph, later called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910), and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound.

  5. Sound Burger - Wikipedia

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    The Sound Burger is a portable record player developed by Audio-Technica of Japan. Originally released in 1983, it was brought back in an updated form in 2022. The original Sound Burger (model no. AT770) was marketed in the United States as the Mister Disc.

  6. Pete Johnson (musician) - Wikipedia

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    Kermit Holden "Pete" Johnson (March 25, 1904 – March 23, 1967) [1] [2] was an American boogie-woogie and jazz pianist.. Tony Russell stated in his book The Blues – From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray that "Johnson shared with the other members of the 'Boogie Woogie Trio' the technical virtuosity and melodic fertility that can make this the most exciting of all piano music styles, but he was ...

  7. Turntablism - Wikipedia

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    For this reason, flares are named according to clicks. A simple one click forward flare would be a forward scratch starting with the sound on as the DJ bounces/clicks the fader against the side once extremely quickly in the middle of the forward stroke creating two distinct sounds in one stroke of your record hand and ending with the fader open.

  8. Birmingham Sound Reproducers - Wikipedia

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    It supplied turntables and autochangers to many of the world’s record player manufacturers, eventually gaining 87% of the market. The company also manufactured their own brand of player, the Monarch automatic record changer, which could select and play 7", 10" and 12" records at 16, 33 1 ⁄ 3 , 45 or 78 rpm, automatically intermixing ...

  9. Sound recording and reproduction - Wikipedia

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    Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording .