Word: phonographic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
President Hoover began his journeys last week by going to Philadelphia to watch the Athletics beat the St. Louis Cardinals in their initial world series game (see p. 42). As he entered Shibe Park, "Hail to the Chief" was played for him, on a phonograph. Because not enough seats had been reserved, 17 out of the 56 in his party had to sit in the stone aisles. The President took seat No. 4 in his box. Five members of the Cabinet clustered close...
...Vallee, Yale '26 and Maine varsity letter man, denied today having had any correspondence with Harvard officials relative to the recording and popularizing of "Harvardiana" and "Our Director", two Harvard songs to which the famous New York crooner had supposedly been denied the rights, and declared that in making phonograph records of the songs he believed that he "was giving Harvard a good plug just as he had done for Maine with the 'Stein Song...
...Haselbrunner would set up a rigid, whim-proof A and agree to abide by it. He would then have it pressed on phonograph discs for world distribution. He would broadcast it at intervals much as Greenwich Time is broadcast...
Best means for such pitch dissemination would be the radio. The phonograph is unreliable since the slightest variation of the turntable from set speed (78 revolutions per min.) changes the pitch. The veracity of tuning-forks depends upon atmospheric and temperature constancy. Dr. Haselbrunner's convention would put a stop to an occasional practice of recording laboratories, namely, varying the pitch to fit the peculiar abilities of recording artists, a practice distressing to persons with a sense of absolute pitch...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...