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Music has a great influent on people in our daily life, just like technology’s effect on the music. In the last 100 years, pop music has been a major part of American culture. There’s always discussion on how great can a pop music affect one’s daily life. Both technology and music can affect one’s life in either good or bad way such that they are also related to each other. Technology had always had a dominant role in human history like music since the 1900s. Since then, the advancement of technology had create ‘miracle’ with music such that people won’t be able to imagine the effect back in 19th century. The effect of the technology on pop music can be observed through the instruments, composition and mainly the recording and transmission technique. Nowadays, music is more accessible to people which has more effect on people nowadays than our great-grandparents. We can listen to popular music through iPod, iPhone, computer, internet and etc. However, these things would have been impossible to do back in 19th century because music can only be heard through live performance. This phenomena continue until the idea of recording music pop up back in late 1890s. In the late 1890s, the concept of self-playing piano start to capture the attention of the inventors and the public and several different inventors’ mechanisms were marketed. Player piano has all the characteristic of a piano and it can play by itself. Piano designer and inventor Melville Clark had his very first instrument “Apollo Player Piano”, built with 88note standard in 1901 caused a major impact on the music industry. Player piano is the very first widely successful consumer device that was able to encode the data in binary format. This was done by hand punching rolls ... ... middle of paper ... ...ved from http://www.acesandeighths.com/microphone_evo.html 7. William, R. (2014). The history of pop radio: 1920-1951 [osa/radio history]. Retrieved from http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-history-of-pop-radio-1920-1951-osa-radio-history-mw0000623721http://www.acesandeighths.com/microphone_evo.html 8. Richard, B., & Ingo, T. (2005). A century of microphones:the implications of amplification for the singer and the listener . The H.W Wilson Company. Retrieved from https://www.academia.edu/1057513/A_Century_of_Microphones_The_Implications_of_Amplification_for_the_Singer_and_Listener 9. John, B. (2014). Bing Crosby Artist biography. Retrieved from http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bing-crosby-mn0000094252/biography 10. Gary , G. (n.d.). Bing bio. Retrieved from http://bingcrosby.com/bing-bio 11. Millard, A.(1995.) America on record. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.