LINKS

Websites

• The Talking Machine Forum: Probably the best forum for discussions about gramophones and phonographs.
• City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society (CLPGS): The oldest such society in the world.
• Antique Phonograph Society: Currently the largest phonograph society in the world.
• Canadian Antique Phonograph Society
• Grammophon Portal. A fantastic German site with excellent forum and a cool section on HMV Colonial models
• GRAPHONOGRAM Superb Swiss site with a mountain of catalogues and information
• PHONORAMA My favourite European site.
• La Phonogalerie: Phonograph museum in Paris.
• Graham-ophones The late Graham Barber's excellent site is now hosted at the archive.
• Charmsori Gramophone and Edison Science Museum: Nirvana for gramophone and phonograph collectors.
• Mr Gramophone: Canadian museum.
• Here is a link to the NPS site with an in-depth symposium on The Origins of Sound Recording. Excellent set of videos, starting with this one. Edison’s Path to the Phonograph.
• Burmese Colour Needles: Contact Andy Briggs who is making these to original specifications.
• Museum of Obsolete Media. A wonderful site with links to some incredible recordings.
• Audiojumble The UK's largest second-hand and vintage hi-fi event.
• Memory Lane Magazine Magazine dedicated to the music of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s in particular the Great British Dance Bands.
• One of my favourite sites. The Museum of RetroTechnology. Check out their The Auxetophone & Other Compressed-Air Gramophones page.
• New York's Broadcasting History. A look at the history of Radio in New York City
• Check out my sister site all about the vocalist Al Bowlly: ALBOWLLY.CLUB

Download links to books, pamphlets and magazines

• The EMG STORY by Francis James
• The Magnificent Music Machine by Joe E. Ginn. The Pdf file is large and watermarked. There are printed copies available from Graham Rankin.
• Modern Gramophones And Electrical Reproducers: The still very relevant 1929 book by Percy Wilson and G.W.Webb
• Gramophones - Acoustic and Radio: The Gramophone magazines handbook compiled by G. Wilson in 1932, is downloadable at this site with many other interesting articles.
• The Reproduction of Sound: By Henry Seymour. Published in 1918 and still a must read book on the subject.
• Henry Seymour Catalogue.
• Talking Machine World: American magazine from 1905 to 1929.
• The Hillandale News: The CLPGS magazine from 1960 to 2001.
• Talking Machine Review: An excellent archived magazine from 1969 to 1995.
• The Theory of Sound, Volume One by J. W. S. Rayleigh; Robert B. Lindsay
• ERESBIL Basque archives of music Spanish site with European record catalogues
• They Called Him Al - The Musical Life of Al Bowlly by Ray Pallett

Links to E.M.G and EXPERT related pages

• An EXPERT Junior dissected with great pictures.
• Ian Calderbank site featuring Graham Rankin's E.M.G Xa.
• Things that Count: Jim Falk's excellent site which features his E.M.G Mk Xa Export model and a hoard of very useful information on E.M.G. The rest of the site on, "Things that Count" is well worth a visit too.
• Graham Rankin's YouTube channel featuring his wonderful aluminium / fiberglass Xb Oversize horns. Another link to Graham's horns on TTMF.
• YouTube link to another excellent EMG channel by yuichis3010.
• My YouTube channel

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