Herbert Haffner

His Master’s Voice

Die Geschichte der Schallplatte. Edison-Walze, Schellack, Vinyl und CD bis zum Stream

It is a dream of mankind to be able to store sounds, speech or music and reproduce this fleeting sound with a time delay. Even Johannes Kepler in the early 17th century had no doubt that one day "speaking machines" would be produced; however, he predicted that they would have a "hollow sound".
And around 200 years later, one of the first "phonographs" actually scratched sound waves onto a sheet of paper with a boar's bristle. But there was still a long way to go before the shiny, analog vinyl record, which some music lovers still prefer to any digital recording today. Edison first experimented with tin foil and hand-cranked rollers to improve the voice recording of office machines. In 1887, Emil Berliner finally filed a patent application for a flat record that could be played on his "Gramophone" - one of the most successful products in the entertainment industry was born and a cultural revolution was set in motion. Herbert Haffner tells the story of sound recording in an entertaining, exciting and highly informative way, from the beginnings with cylinders and shellacs to the development of the long-playing record and its often invoked but never realized death in the upheavals of the digital age of CDs, downloads and streaming portals.

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Print: 230 pp., pb., € 24,00, 978-3-95593-251-0
Language: German

Weight: 0.49 kg

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