Published by EMOM at June 15, 2020

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Gramophones are the oldest instruments used to record the true talent of artists.

It does not supplement the music with any sound refining material or melody, it just records what is being produced from the instruments.

Inventor of the Gramophone: Emile Berliner

German-born American immigrant in 1894 found a way to transform music and sound recording industry with his flat disc records and gramophone.
He devised a way for creation of flat shaped discs, and he renamed his graphophone design that utilized this disc as gramophone.
He and Eldridge R. Johnson formed Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901, which managed to greatly popularize 7, 10- and 12-inch records between 1901 and 1903.
This important step enabled sound recording and reproducing devices to truly become accepted by public, manufacturers and professional producers of content.

Anatomy of a gramophone:

Parts	Description
Pickup head	1. The needle on the pickup head was commonly made of copper or steel. 2. The needle is attached to a diaphragm that sends the sound vibrations to the horn.
Turntable	1. This is rotated at a constant speed by a wind-up clock-work mechanism. 2. They usually operated at a speed of 78rpm.
Horn	1. Amplifies and projects the sound from the needle (stylus). 2. A ball or material was put into the horn to reduce the sound from the horn.
Spindle	1. The hole punched in the centre of the record disc is placed over the spindle. 2. This keeps the record from spinning off the turntable as it rotates.
Stylus	1. The stylus is the part of the gramophone that made contact with the audio disc to read the music. 2. Early models employed sapphires and diamonds until being replaced by copper or steel in the early 1900s.
Records	1. One of the most important parts of a gramophone is the disc record. 2. First introduced in 1892, these discs were available in a variety of sizes from 5 to 10 inches and eventually, in 1908, a double-sided version.

Working of Gramophone:

Gramophones use the vibration waveform technology to record the produced sound.
The mechanism is that it uses physical deviations that are incised to a rotating disc to record the sound produced.

First Song to be Recorded on Gramophone in India:

Gauhar Jaan (1873–1930) was selected to sing when Fred Gaisburg decided to introduce gramophone in India with the first disc being cut in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1902.
The first singer to be recorded on the gramophone on Indian soil, she attended the recording session for a sum of Rs 3,000.

Interesting Facts:

They are the oldest form of music recording.
Emile Berliner is the legend behind this invention that she was the first person to have the idea that people who sing can be recorded and their sound be listened to again and again without them having to sing again.
It used to be an analog form of recording.
Music recording was done using diameters.
Many DJs used to prefer gramophones.
Before the 20th century, when phonographs came in place, Cylinders were used in the recording of music.
Though their quality was not good, people used to abide to it for lack of no option.

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