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From phonographs to Wurlitzers, this Portland collector spins a life around vintage sound By Kristian Foden-Vencil (OPB) April 12, 2025 6 a.m.
New Age Phonograph, a blues-rock duo based out of southern Oregon, will be performing at the Celt Pub and Grill Saturday. Bandmembers Randi Mueck and Matt Nolan, partners in blues and marriage ...
Step into the world of audio craftsmanship as we reveal the process behind making a phonograph record player in China. From the assembly of intricate components to the final tuning, discover how ...
A friend then recommended that he purchase a Bettini Micro-Reproducer, a phonograph-style machine that could also record audio onto four-to-six-inch-long cylinders as well as play them back.
Listening parties for Ringo Starr’s new country album, ‘Look Up,’ will be held in independent record stores across the U.S. this coming week.
We've all heard the stories of inheritance. Whether it went smoothly or was a tug-of-war, a huge part of a family's continuation is through the legacies of the elders before them. Sociology has long ...
Thomas Edison invented the phonograph on August 12, 1877. It "will undoubtedly be liberally devoted to music," Edison predicted with stunning accuracy in 1878.
The stereotypical phonograph in most people’s minds is a small box with a very large horn attached to amplify the sound. The museum has a number of these on display and, as with the music boxes, they ...
But then someone decided the fidelity of the phonograph was superior to the compressed algorithms of new technology. In 3 BRILLIANT MINUTES, spring chicken Brad Spakowitz looks at a new retro ...
But while U.S. consumers bought 41.3 million vinyl records in 2022, compared to 33.4 million compact discs, only half of those who've recently purchased vinyl records own a turntable, also called ...
NH Chronicle: Quirky Collections Thousands of phonograph cylinders to hundreds of cookie cutters ... Updated: 8:00 PM EDT Mar 29, 2023 Editorial Standards ⓘ ... March 29th, 2023 — ...