Phonograph expert John Paul Kurdyla will present special programs on the phonograph this July and August at Edison & Ford Winter Estates. A resident of Padua, Italy, Kurdyla’s expertise and engaging ...

I love history and I love the Museum! Rex and I are happy that we get to take care of the Museum. There are many fun things to see, including a Thomas Edison phonograph. Thomas Edison was the most ...

Dave Dazer carefully sets a needle into a groove on a spinning black disk. After several initial pops, crackles and hisses, a male singer's voice warbles from the end of a large trumpet. "Barney ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — It's scratchy, lasts only 78 seconds and features the world's first recorded blooper. The modern masses can now listen to what experts say is the oldest playable recording of an ...

If you think of records as platters, you are of a certain age. If you don’t remember records at all, you are even younger. But there was a time when audio records were not flat — they were drums, ...

Local resident Marion Longe donated the phonograph that belonged to her late husband David. “David was given the phonograph by the couple who ran a second-hand stall, when they were selling up,” Mrs ...

Imagine if your couch or your coffee maker suddenly started talking to you — or perhaps launched into the chorus of “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain.” What would your reaction be? Consider that, ...