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...Decorative bourbon bottles and gramophone horns suggest long-ago parties and scenes of cobwebbed glamour....
...Illustrations created using a digital stylus and drawing tablet, or photographs taken on a smartphone, can also be added....
...Early days and expansion 1921 Sir Edward Elgar opens the Gramophone Company’s first HMV store on London’s Oxford Street. 1930s Begins producing radio and television sets under the HMV and Marconiphone...
...The chain, known for its logo of “Nipper” the dog listening to a gramophone, had 100 stores by 1997....
...A decade ago it started creating software that helps producers give their digital recordings an old-fashioned, analogue sound....
...Modelled on a 1920s Gramophone but packed with contemporary technology, it lends digital music an authentic, warmer sound....
...When he was 11, the family moved to Hoogland, in the centre of the Netherlands, where he owned his first mono gramophone and later a reel-to-reel tape on which he recorded friends’ LPs....
...It is imperative to commit these for digital posterity as soon as possible. At the current rate of transfer, however, it will take 48 years to preserve everything in the archive’s collection....
...A century ago, Bartók had to haul his gramophone through the mud of Moravia to learn about folk music. Now a curious kid in Brooklyn can track down an Azerbaijani song in seconds....
...A precursor to the gramophone, it is the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound and dates from the late 19th century....
...All the while, HMV was facing mounting competition from the onslaught of cheap sales from digital music downloads and supermarkets and online retailers such as Amazon....
...The deal has already been cleared in several countries, including Australia and Japan, despite opponents’ claims that it could harm small independent labels and stifle digital innovation....
...Since its founding in 1934, Glyndebourne has embraced new technology and the wide reach that it has offered; the festival’s inaugural production, Le nozze di Figaro, was recorded by The Gramophone Company...
...Their argument will be that such consolidation is essential to save a creative industry at risk in the digital era....
...Photo-processing shops: Before digital cameras photographs were taken on rolls of film, which had to be taken to photo-processing shops or chemists to be developed....
...At the end of 2009, it ceased manufacturing CD players to focus on digital streaming. Digital streaming players accounted for 37 per cent of its sales in 2009....
...Once upon a time, back in 1862, when telegraphs and gramophones were being invented and the operetta was in its heyday, a lavish theatre opened in the heart of Paris....
...Otherwise, there is a built-in microphone to hold up to speaker, although I would personally only use this for recording some 78s on my wind-up gramophone....
...You might think this would be quite straightforward but my experience of living in the wonderful new digital world is that nothing is straightforward....
...Grieg left us nine gramophone recordings, made in Paris in 1903. These became the source for a revelatory exploration....
...It might make commercial sense, then, for the company to revamp its longstanding logo of a dog listening to a gramophone....
...Despite the recent digital switchover, several of these defunct sets are still entirely usable and it was with great delight that Bennett-Levy recently hooked up his 1938 model to a “digibox” in order to...
...The gramophone, invented by Emile Berliner, trumped his phonograph despite an inferior sound quality: its discs were cheaper....
...Synchronising an iPod with a gramophone, for example, is impossible; as is uploading a document to a typewriter or texting a friend from a phone box....
...His Master’s Voice is still just about audible, but the way things are heading, the quizzical dog and the gramophone may in due course be the only items HMV doesn’t stock....
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