Music was played on discs. The very first ones were wax, then shellac and later they were made of vinyl. They were identified by their speed. When I was small the gramophone records (as they were known then) my mum and dad had were LPs (albums) which were played at 33 rpm and sing...
International Gramophone Society IGS 004 Bloch: Macbeth--exc. DEVALLIER, REHFUSS, TAPPY; ANSERMET, Suisse Romande O. A. Summary IGS 083/4 (2) Liszt: Legend of St. Elizabeth. NISKA, ALLEN, McINTYRE, GRAMM; BOULEZ, N.Y. Phil. (1971). A International Piano Archives...
Bacigalupi’s Edison Kinetoscope, Phonograph and Gramophone Arcade on Market Street, San Francisco. It was very successful until the fire that followed the 1906 earthquake burned it down. Tally wasn’t responsible for the first moving pictures shown on a screen in Los Angeles either; that happen...
During World War II, she would listen to jazz records, muffling the gramophone with a cushion so others didn't know that she was listening to music from enemy Allied cultures. But she was pulled into helping out at the family's gyoza restaurant since she was 19, and didn't pursue music...