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For Louis Armstrong’s birthday we tune in to “Tiger Rag” on a Gramophone

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Emile Berliner (1888) working on the invention that would bring music to the masses

A family listening to Edison’s cylindrical phonograph in 1909

A typical pressing plant in the 1950s, with Berliner’s original disc format still in use

An advertisement for Deutsche Grammophon, released in 1904

Berliner’s gramophone, this version originating from 1889

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