Abstract
In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison developed a crude recording device that was to become the phonograph. Although Edison soon abandoned the phonograph in order to perfect the incandescent light, he eventually returned to the possibility of reproducing sound. By 1920, the phonograph was available for public purchase and many homes proudly displayed the machine that could reproduce sound on command. The phonograph was a new technology. Once perfected, it brought good music to any home able to afford the device and the records to go with it. Once a single record was obtained, the contents of the record could be heard as frequently as its owner desired. Because only the better artists were recorded, the phonograph's music was better and it could be heard oftener than the music provided by the fire department band, the itinerant musician, or the traveling symphony orchestra.
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