Fonotipia Records, or Dischi Fonotipia, was an Italian gramophone record label established in 1904 with a charter to record the art of leading opera singers and some other celebrity musicians, chiefly violinists. Fonotipia continued to […]
Written by Lisa Hix [Article used with permission] This article originally appeared in the December 2014 issue of our magazine – The Discographer Magazine (pp.86-107) In the 2001 movie “Ghost World,” 18-year-old Enid picks up […]
The 78rpm Community (and) Discographer Magazine recently had a conversation with Director/ Producer Alex Steyermark and Producer/Recordist Lavinia Jones Wright on their latest film project – The 78 Project. Tell us what your new film […]
Written by Wayne Shevlin Used with permission of the EMI Archive Trust I’d like to celebrate the microphone and the revolutionary impact it has had on music. As technology, the microphone is a marvel: converting […]
Written by our Staff Editor On December 14th 1931, EMI engineer Alan Dower Blumlein filed a patent for a two-channel audio system, for what we now know as ‘Stereo’. Alan Dower Blumlein (1903 – 1942) […]
Researched and Prepared by Terry Brown For a biography on Reginald Foresythe, please see article here (part 1) and here (part 2) [Key: ⦿ 78rpm Electric] PAUL HOWARD’S Quality Serenaders: Paul Howard (ts), George Orendorff […]
Eccentricity must go hand in hand with collecting – particularly if you have the odd hobby of collecting jazz 78s records, playing bluegrass records to the cat in the basement and love to run miles […]
Written by Wes Williams This is the strange story of how recordings made about 1906 for a cylinder record company turned up on a flat disc manufacture about 1920 with sound fidelity better than I […]
Written by Jonathan Holmes Jonathan Holmes is a member of the 78rpm Collectors’ Community and has an impressive and extensive collection of English Dance Dance and Jazz 78s. He also currently works for the B.B.C. […]
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