BERLINER 7-inch single-sided 78 rpm RECORD
$
61
$ 61
Sold For
Jan 25, 2015
Sold Date
Jan 18, 2015
Start Date
$ 30
Start price
7
Number Of Bids
USA
Country Of Seller
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Description
You are bidding on a single-sided 7-inch record....a late 19th Century Emile Berliner Gramophone...#670
Condition is VG.
I altered the contrast on the scan to make the writing on label readable. Actual disk is black with many bumps in pressing....but it plays all the way through...a comic parody of black preaching and singing.....
Recording information etched into the wax: Virginia Camp Meeting Graham and Golden Wash, DC 8-'97
1887 - Emile Berliner Invents The Gramophone And Records
On November 8 1887, Emile Berliner, a German immigrant working in Washington D.C., patented a successful system of sound recording. Berliner was the first inventor to stop recording on cylinders and start recording on flat disks or records. The first records were made of glass, later zinc, and eventually plastic. A spiral groove with sound information was etched into the flat record. The record was rotated on the gramophone.price rating
