Table mechanical gramophone
Table mechanical gramophone with a Lumiere membrane, 1930

Sound carrying media

The group of phonographs from the collection Audio and video technique is completed by a collection of about 500 black phonograph cylinders of factory production and about 200 yellow cylinders recorded by amateurs. The collection of standard gramophone records contains about 1100 pieces. Moreover, the collection contains records Pathe with vertical recording and large gramophone records used for sound background of films in the period before invention of an optical sound recording directly on the film tape. The collection contains also about 50 tapes for blattnerfon and about 20 tapes for the apparatus Philips-Miller. The collection includes also a device for reproduction of phonograph cylinders and standard gramophone records by electric method


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