Edison Wax Cylinder

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Berliner Horn Gramaphone
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Acoustic Recording Studio
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By the 1920s, it was manufacturing not only
pianos but phonographs, and, to go with the
phonographs it began producing records. The
Gennett Records Division of Starr Piano recorded
artists of early jazz, blues, and country.
Because these were new music forms in the 1920s
the large record companies did not record them at
all, so the records produced during this time
constitute the earliest recorded examples of
these forms. Artists such as Louis Armstrong,
Jelly Roll Morton, Hoagy Carmichael, and Bix
Beiderbecke performed in the studio in the
Whitewater gorge
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Davenport Blues was the first composition by Bix
Beiderbecke to have been recorded. The historic
event took place in the Gennett Recording Studios
of the Starr Piano Company, in Richmond, Indiana,
on January 26, 1925.
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Gennett logo on the side of building in Richmond,
IN
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King Oliver Band with Louis Armstrong
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The end of acoustic recording
Although unveiled in 1925, electrical recording
resulted from several successive technologies,
ranging from Western Electric engineer Edward C.
Wente's development of the condenser mic in 1916
to the availability of improved carbon mics
such as Western Electric's venerable model 1B.
But the breakthrough came with Henry C. Harrison
and Joseph P. Maxfield of Bell Labs, who created
a matched-impedance recorder that had a bandwidth
of 50 to 6k Hz greatly improved from acoustic
system's limited 250 to 2.5k Hz range.
True to form, many critics hated the electrical
process, claiming it brought out individual
instruments, thus destroying acoustic recording's
smooth ensemble sound other detractors believed
that this new technology sounded harsh and
unnatural.