Old Gramophones & Other Talking Machines by: Benet Bergonzi

Click thumbnails for expanded view.

Off Market

$10.76

Item Not Available

SHP-1991-9780747801047-B1

Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry.

Table of Contents

This book describes the development of domestic and sound-reproduction instruments from the early phonographs and the first gramophone, through to the fine 'talking furniture' of the 1920s whose designers emulated period styles; it also discusses the recording industry's complicated history.

Benet Bergonzi is a museum curator. He worked from 1987 to 1994 at the British Library National Sound Archive and was responsible for cataloguing and researching an important collection of gramophones from the past 100 years, as well as cylinder phonographs, tape recorders and radiograms.