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Musical Record Payments by the New York Phonograph Company (1892-93)

How often did recording artists visit recording laboratories to make records during the earliest phase of the recording industry, back in the late nineteenth century?  How much did they get paid each time?  Who were their piano accompanists, and how much did they get paid?  What were the salaries of the recordists and other staff?…

September 29, 2019 in Phonographic History.

James Davis and His Recording Telephone

A forgotten North Carolina inventor named James Davis seems to have played a significant role in the early history of sound recording, but it’s tantalizingly unclear just what that role was. My interest in Davis was sparked by a historical essay on the telephone published in the London Electrician in 1883.  The author of this…

March 29, 2016 in Phonographic History, Telephone History.

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