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This Is The Oldest Vinyl Album In The History Of The World
Sometime in 1890, Emile Berliner recorded the first album in the history of the world. Then, that record by the father of the gramophone was destroyed. Today, Patrick Feaster, a sound historian at Indiana University, recreated the album using just a printed photograph of the album. His technique defies belief.
Paper Gramophone: A Fold-In Musical Odyssey
Those of the older generation — or audiophiles who still love the sound of vinyl — may still have a few LPs lying around with no way to play them. Made mostly from paper, you can make most of this funky gramophone.
Plastic Cup Gramophone Kit: Edison’s Invention Reproduced
Those of you amused by the Edison recording outrage will love this: a toy gramophone kit that lets you record and play back your voice from a plastic cup. Made by Gekken, a Japanese company that produces educational toys, it uses exactly the same principle as Edison’s, with the neat use of a plastic cup as the audio horn. Apparently the kit’s available in limited quanities, since MAKE magazine brought some back from Japan and Gekken no longer make it. But once you’ve seen the video of a Japanese guy singing Hey Jude into one and playing it back, you’ll be wanting one.
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