[78-L] Story of the LP (queries)

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Shoshani" <mshoshani at sbcglobal.net>
> On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 21:30 -0500, Michael Biel wrote:
>> There was the Columbia Graphophone Grand in 1899 with three horns and 
>> three recorders or reproducers.  
> 
> That's actually the Columbia *Multiplex* Graphophone Grand. The regular
> Graphophone Grand was a single recorder/reproducer 5" cylinder machine.
> 
> This was also the first time the word "Multiplex" was used to label or
> describe consumer audio gear, although if I recall correctly the word
> itself had previously been used in conjunction with harmonic telegraphy.
> 
Indeed it had...in fact, it was Edison's experiments with speeding up
isolated telegraphic tracks that gave him the idea for the phonograph.
when they sounded eerily like voices...!

...stevenc