RTA 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Valdemar Poulsen, Jack Mullin, Player Piano
6 Feb 2017
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Chapter 2 - the impact of audio technology. Development of early audio tech prior to digital age - the player piano, phonograph* & gramophone: by end of nineteenth century, technology had taken over music century. At this time of era, the technological innovation for delivering music was the piano most widespread & important mechanical device for home entertainment. Market of selling piano sheet music of popular songs. Sang close up & intimately into microphone, electrically enhanced with amplification. The impact on sound recording of the talkies : around 1927, silent films replaced by talkies - motion pictures synchronized with sounds. Recording was of high quality like that of a live music show. Mullin liberated some of their recording equipment following the war: 1947, demonstrated magnetic recording technology to american singer & radio star. The establishment & development of am radio & later fm radio: invention of radio by italian guglielmo marconi.
