List of phonograph manufacturers
This is a list of phonograph manufacturers. The phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone, record player or turntable, is a device introduced in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.
Phonograph manufacturers
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- Abbingdon Music Research
- Acoustic Research
- Acoustic Signature[1]
- Akai
- Alphason
- AnalogueWorks[2]
- Audio-Technica
- Bang & Olufsen
- Bergman
- Birmingham Sound Reproducers aka BSR
- Brinkmann Audio GmbH[3]
- Cambridge Audio
- Clearaudio Electronic
- Collaro
- Columbia Graphophone Company
- Columbia Gramophone Company[4][5]
- Columbia Phonograph Company[6][7]
- Connoisseur
- Crosley
- Dansette
- Denon
- Dohmann Audio[8]
- Dr. Feickert Analogue[9]
- Dual
- EMG
- Empire
- Garrard Engineering and Manufacturing Company
- Gemini Sound Products
- Goldring
- Gramophone Company
- Graphophone
- Grundig
- Harman Kardon
- His Master's Voice
- Hitachi
- IGB Eletrônica
- JBL
- J.Sikora[10][11]
- JVC
- Kimball Phonograph
- Kuzma[12]
- Kyocera
- Langer
- Lenco Turntables
- Linn Products
- Logic
- London Decca[13][14]
- Luxman
- Luxor
- Lyric Phonograph Company[15]
- Magnavox
- Michell[16]
- Musical Fidelity
- NAD Electronics
- Maplenoll
- Marantz
- McIntosh Labs
- Mitsubishi
- Mofi Electronics (Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs)
- Nakamichi
- National Phonograph Company[17]
- North American Phonograph Company[6][18]
- Nottingham Analogue Studio[19]
- Numark Industries
- Origin Live
- Ortofon
- Onkyo
- Pacific Phonograph Company
- Paillard
- Panasonic
- Philips
- Pink Triangle
- Pioneer Corporation
- Pro-Ject
- RCA
- Realistic
- Rega Research
- Roksan Audio
- Sansui Electric
- Sanyo
- Silvertone Sold by Sears
- Simon Yorke
- SME Limited
- Sonora Phonograph Company[20]
- Sony Corporation
- Stanton Magnetics
- TEAC
- TechDAS[21]
- Technics
- Telefunken
- Tesla
- Thorens
- Transcriptors[22]
- Townshend Audio
- U-Turn Audio[23]
- Vestax
- Victor Talking Machine Company
- V-M Corporation - Voice of Music
- VPI Industries
- Webster-Chicago -Webcor
- Wagner Audio[24]
- Well Tempered Lab[25]
- Wilson Benesch
- Win Laboratories[26]
- Yamaha Corporation
- Yamaha Pro Audio
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A Dual P 53 record player with 1210 turntable -
An advertisement for Edison New Standard Phonograph, 1898 -
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By region
[edit]United States
[edit]In 1890 in the United States, many phonograph companies existed that had state- and region-based names, such as Alabama Phonograph Company, Colorado and Utah Phonograph Company, Kansas Phonograph Company, New England Phonograph Company, etc.[27]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "Acoustic Signature". acoustic-signature.com/en/.
- ^ "AnalogueWorks – British Turntables". analogueworks.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
- ^ "Brinkmann Audio GmbH". www.brinkmann-audio.de/.
- ^ Meyer Brothers Druggist. C.F.G. Meyer. 1917. p. 118.
- ^ Mitchell, J.A. (1918). Life. Life. p. 4.
- ^ a b Gaudreault, A. (2009). American Cinema 1890–1909: Themes and Variations. Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema. Rutgers University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-8135-4644-5.
- ^ Burgess, R.J. (2014). The History of Music Production. Oxford University Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-19-938501-0.
- ^ "Dohmann Audio". dohmannaudio.com.
- ^ "Dr. Feickert Analogue". www.feickert.org.
- ^ https://jsikora.pl/en/index.html [bare URL]
- ^ "Analog Corner #323: J.Sikora Reference turntable and KV12 VTA tonearm". Stereophile.com. June 21, 2022.
- ^ "Kuzma". kuzma.si.
- ^ London Decca Cartridges
- ^ "Welcome to Presence Audio". presenceaudio.com.
- ^ The Phonoscope. Phonoscope Publishing Company. 1899. p. 21.
- ^ The Absolute Sound. Absolute Sound, Limited. 1995.
- ^ Thomas A. Edison, Inc; Co, National Phonograph (1910). Edison Amberola Monthly. Pennant Litho, Incorporated. p. 14.
{{cite book}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ Kenney, William Howland (1999). Recorded Music in American Life : The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945. Oxford University Press, USA. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-0-19-802604-4.
- ^ "Nottingham Analogue Studio". nottinghamanaloguestudio.co.uk.
- ^ Douglas, A. (1999). Radio Manufacturers of the 1920s, Volume 3. Sonoran Pub. pp. 106–107. ISBN 978-1-886606-04-3.
- ^ "TechDAS". techdas.jp.
- ^ Gramophone. General Gramophone Publications Limited. 1978.
- ^ "U-Turn Orbit: An audiophile-quality turntable for $179". 7 December 2013.
- ^ "Wagner Audio".
- ^ "Well Tempered Lab".
- ^ Bonnier Corporation (July 1978). Popular Science. Bonnier Corporation. pp. 50–. ISSN 0161-7370.
- ^ Proceedings of First Annual Convention of Local Phonograph Companies of the United States Held at Chicago, May 28 and 29, 1890. Phonograph Printing Company. 1890. p. 98.
Further reading
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- Kennedy, R.; McNutt, R. (1999). Little Labels--big Sound: Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music. Indiana University Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-253-33548-7.