1911 HMV Gramophone Monarch Display Model V Horn For Sale
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1911 HMV Gramophone Monarch Display Model V Horn:
$89.95
Dimension
L: 14.5 W: 10 H: 15.5 Inches
About
This is a beautiful antique 1911HMV Gramophone Monarch MODEL V Horn. HMV stands for “His Masters Voice”, is atrademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a largerecord label. The name was coined in 1899 as the title of a painting of the dogNipper listening to a wind-up gramophone.
This model is for displayONLY and are handmade on a 1:1 scale using iron
. Every detail such as the horn andstorage box is carefully crafted just like a real one. A must have for thecollector and enthusiast!
History
As the arcade phonographbusiness was growing in 1893, Edison was moving into the business ofmanufacturing records (either made in-house or sent to him by his regionalphonograph operating companies), and he appeared to be planning to establishthe phonograph as a home entertainment device.
However, his progress was slowedconsiderably by the numerous lawsuits filed against him by competing inventors.
In 1894 or 95, a Germanimmigrant to the U.S. named Emile Berliner introduced a commercial version of therecord player he had been developing since about 1887. The player used a discinstead of a cylinder (although Edison, Tainter, Cros, and others hadanticipated the use of the disc). The record was made on a zinc disc coatedwith wax. Once a recording was carved into the wax, the disc was dipped in anacid solution, which ate away the disc under the groove and etched therecording into the surface of the zinc. Then, using an electroplating process,the zinc disc was turned into a stamper that could be used to produce the finalrecordings in large numbers by pressing the stamper into a ball of\"Vulcanite\" (hard rubber). He called it the \"gramophone.\"
Beside the advantages of massproduction, gramophone records could produce a higher volume than the phonographor graphophone records of the day. Thats because the volume of a record wasdirectly related to how hard the tonearm was pressed into the groove--theharder you pressed, the more sound came out, but at some point the pressuredamaged the recording. For a few years at least, before the phonograph wasimproved, the Berliner disc could produce a loud, room-filling sound. He set upa small recording studio in 1896 and by 1897 had developed an improvedphonograph. The disc business was off and running.
The Victor Talking MachineCompany, formed in 1901, commercialized the gramophone based on Berlinerspatents, while in the U.K., the Gramophone Company had been formed in 1897 todo much the same thing. Berliner, a native German, also formed the Deutsche Grammofoncompany with his brother in 1898.
By 1906, Victor Talking MachineCompany was already a major force in the music industry when it introduced itsfirst \"Victrola,\" a disc player with the horn inside the cabinetinstead of outside it. This and subsequent generations of Victrolas becametop-sellers, and \"Victrola\" became a generic term for the recordplayer in the U.S.
The success of the disc was suchthat in 1912, Edison at last began offering disc-type phonographs and recordsfor sale in recognition of the large number of disks on the market. Cylindermachines and records, however, were still produced until the demise of EdisonsEntertainment Phonograph division in 1929.
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