I did the history of music players and how it first came around. I went from the first music players that was invented to the most recent. Music has been around for the longest time. People wanted a way so that people could listen to it over and over again. So they started making music players so people could record and listen to the music they wanted to. The first types of music players weren’t high tech or anything they were just something you can listen to. They started to advance the music players and began to make them so everyone wanted one.
The first type of music player that was made was called the Phonograph. It was created by Thomas Edison in 1877. With the Phonograph you could record music and it would play it back to you. The sound on the Phonograph wasn’t the greatest, but it was the first one around so they had to start from somewhere. The phonograph was pretty popular but people stopped buying them because they already had one.
Thomas Edison made a recording device that
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you could put into some of the music players so it could play it back. It was called a wax cylinder. You would record music onto it and then put it into the music device and then it would play the music back to you. The started making different types of music players using the wax cylinders. The only thing bad about this was that you could only listen to the music a little bit before it wore out. The Graphophone was the next music player created after the Phonograph. This also used wax cylinders to listen to music. The sound in the Graphophone was better than the Phonograph. Also with the Graphophone you could listen to more recorded songs than the Phonograph. After the Graphophone was the Gramophone. It was created by Emile Berliner. It was the first music player not to use cylinders. It used flat discs called records. You didn’t need to plug this is because you would listen to music by winding it up first then it would play back to you. It could be played as many times as you wanted to. The records that the Gramophone uses was easier to make than the wax cylinders. Thomas Edison had also created this product. The records was made of a material called shellac. When you would put music on the records it didn’t take long. You could fit more music on the disc and you could listen to them as much as you wanted to. They first made them in four sizes. The 5 inch, 7 inch, 10 inch, and 12 inch. The 12 inch record could hold up to twenty minutes of music and the ten inch disc could hold three minutes. The five and seven inch couldn’t hold much music. In 1912 and 1917 they started to go on air.
They played music on a small radio and people could listen to the music without having to download or record the music. They stopped having it on the air because of World War 2.
In 1958 the RCA which is a tape cartridge could hold up to sixty minutes of music. You would put the cartridges in the music players. The RCA could hold way more music than the records and wax cylinders. They stopped selling these in 1964 because of low sales.
The first portable speakers were created in 1962 by a man named Henry Kloss. This portable speaker was called the KLH Model 11. It came with a record player, amplifier, and two speakers. This became a hit because you could play whatever you wanted and it was louder than most other music players.
They also created an 8 track record for your car that could hold up to 46 minutes of music. It became a big hit in 1965. People could listen to music while they drove in their cars. This was good on long road
trips. In 1965 they created a cassette tape that could hold 45 minutes of music. It was ⅛ of an inch. So it was easy to carry around. It would be played in the car or in your house. You put whatever music you wanted on it. It was easier to make than most other recorders. After people stopped buying them they decided to advance it and came out with the Carry-Corder 150 Cassette Recorder. It was only 3 pounds so carrying it around wasn’t a problem. It was also battery powered so you just needed batteries to play it. In 1979 they made the Walkman it was made so when you are walking around you could listen to music. Most people carried it everywhere they went. They had high sales that year when it came out. It had a headphone set so you can just listen to it when others didn’t want to or you was in public. Almost like the Walkman was the D-50 portable CD players. It was easy to carry around and listen to music. It was just an upgrade of the Walkman. They were a hit because they both had skip buttons and you could pause the music. It was useful when you didn’t want to listen to a certain song. The CDs they made originally for the CD players became useful because they was easy to make and it could hold a whole album of music on them. They created the CDs after the Walkman was created so they could use it for the D-50 portable CD player. While music players was still being advanced they came up with the MPMan which was the very first Mp3 player. It holds 32 GB of RAM and 32 minutes of music. The reason it was a hit was because you could download the music by a computer. You didn’t have to get it from a store or burn the disc. They made a better version of the music players it was called the Ipod it was created in 2001. This completely changed the way we listen to music nowadays. It was the first music player you could download music manually. Six years later in 2007 they introduced the Ipod touch. It was the first music player you could connect to wifi and download music from iTunes store and download music and listen to it right away. Then we get to how we listen to them now. Most people have music on their phones. You can download the music over the internet. You could also download as many as you want to. A lot of people watch music stream live. This use of music was better because you can get the music just on your phone and you can have it wherever you go.
Fievel hears the violin which makes him think he has found his Papa. But, what Fievel really hears is a recording being played by the gramophone. This was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison.
Although Thomson set up the first electric system, it was Edison who invented the phonograph in eighteen seventy-seven. Editors at Scientific American, who were some of the first to experience Edison's newest creation, were startled. "The machine began by politely inquiring as to our health, asked how we liked the phonograph, informed us that it was very well, and bid us a cordial good night." (RCA Online 2)
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Edison decided to change the idea by using a tin foil wrapped metal cylinder instead of the paper. The final cylinder phonograph had 2 diaphragm and needle units. One would be for recording date and the other would be for playing it. For the machine to work, one would have to speak into a mouthpiece and the sound vibrations would be imprinted on the cylinder. Then the recording needle would create some sort of groove pattern on the cylinder. The data can then played by back by the data from the created grooves.
I. I now come to an end of explaining the changes the music industry has gone through from the fifties on through today. The fifties with its rhythm and blues that gave way to rock and roll, the sixties with the rise of big record labels and their attention shifting more towards pop music that would drive their profits sky high. The seventies with the advent of what we now know as rock.
As the popularity of the phonograph grew, people across the countrybegan to buy their through the mail. Originally, the music consisted mainly of classical singers and orchestral agreements of sentimental songs. One day in 1922 two Texan fiddlers named Alexander Campbell “Eck” Robertson and Henry Gilliland traveled from Atlanta to New York City to get their music recorded.
Music has been around since the beginning of time. Some Native Americans have done rituals that involve music and dancing. Our ancestors have made music with instruments that require materials that you would be able to obtain from animals and dead trees. Music started to boom when the radio came to be. It broadcasted lots of music that would be heard all around the world and for everyone to listen to. Music has been shaping the future for centuries and it has become very popular every time we hear it.
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