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Friday, December 15, 2023

Talking Machine

December 21, 1915, Menasha Record

The new-fangled "talking machine" threatens the old tradition of gathering in the parlor with sheet music on the stand and Mother on the piano.  Within a few years, radio will appear as a commercial entity and records will become even more popular as the century rolls on.

2 comments:

  1. I think it's interesting that it would be referred to as a "talking" machine rather than, say, a music machine.

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  2. They were Edison players that played the wax tubes, before disks. My grandparents had both kinds shown, console and portable.

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