Books on Records , Turntables and Gramophones

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Dear friends,

Feel free to share information regarding books released on Records, Turntables, Gramophones or related items , you may have or even heard.......

Let me start the thread with few books I have in my possession.

1. DK's 100 Best Album Covers by Storm Thorgerson and Aubery Powell.

I got this book long back from Moore Market in Chennai.

"DK 100 Best Album Covers" focuses exclusively on 100 of the most striking and lasting images in popular music. Charting the changes and developments in album design since the 1960s, each of the world-famous covers has been specially chosen as a classic document of its time

From the psychedelia of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's to the quirky social commentary of Nirvana's Nevermind, some of the most memorable, groundbreaking images of the last five decades have graced the covers of rock albums.

DK's 100 Best Album Covers presents the cream of the cover crop, chosen by legendary designer Storm Thorgerson (the creator of celebrated sleeves for Pink Floyd, among other artists) and presented in DK's brilliant lexicographic style.
No other album cover compilation comes close to 100 Best Album Covers in showing -- and telling -- the "stories behind the sleeves." The ideal gift for music lovers of all ages.


2. VICTOR RECORD CATALOG 1920 - THE WORLDS GREATEST ARTISTS ARE ON VICTOR RECORDS

A reference item for collectors of Victor records

 

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3. The Gramophone Company's First Indian Recordings 1899 to 1908- By Michael Kinnear

Publisher : Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd
Cover : Hardcover
No. Of Pages : 285
Date of Publication : 2008
Language : English
ISBN 13 : 9788171547289
ISBN 10 : 8171547281
Year Of Publication : 2008
Author : Michael S Kinnear


This painstakingly researched, unique volume, a definitive discography of Indian music, is a tribute, whose contribution to Indian music has uncontestably been monumental The Gramophone Company.The author has compiled the history of the Gramophone Company and its successor companies activities in India, the recording expeditions it undertook in the country during which time the commercial disc records were reproduced at Hanover, Germany, and valuable information about the companys personnel. A complete discographical listing by matrix number of all known and traceable recording taken on the recording expeditions, the repressings and rerelease of these recordings (subsequent to the transference of the master discs from Hanover to Calcutta and the opening of a disc record pressing plant at Calcutta in 1908) has been documented. With a foreword by Frank Andrews, a detailed bibliography, index and index of recording artists, this book is bound to be valuable document for music lovers as also technical experts.


Michael S. Kinnear was born at Adelaide, South Australia in 1945. He began his working career in the music industry in 1963. He has worked in all aspects of music and sound recording industry including recording, producing, marketing, research and collecting all types and styles of music, as well as involvement in presentation and production of live concerts and tours of both western and Oriental musicians. Over the past three decades he has been very deeply involved in research into the origins and developments of the sound recording industry, particularly in regard to annotating the sound recordings of India, Asia and the Middle East.He has published a number of articles in a variety of journals with a specialized interest in sound recording along with giving many talks on the subject in Australia, England and India.His book A Discography of Hindustani and karnatic music was published by Greenwood Press, USA in 1985. Since then he has been preparing materials for a comprehensive discography of Indian recordings, and to detailing the activities of the numerous sound recording companies that have been active in India, Asia and the Middle East over the past several decades.He is a Founder member of the Society of Indian Record Collectors, and is presently engaged as a special consultant to major record companies with an interest in preserving and promoting musical heritage of India as represented in some recordings.

 

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Book: Swiss Precision: The Story of the Thorens TD124 and other Classic Turntables,
Author: Joachim Bung
Book details: Revised and Expanded Second Edition, Schmitten: Verlags-Service Angelika Bung, 2008
Available from: Joachim Bung, Redaktionsbuero, Stichelwiese 2 b, 61389 Schmitten, GERMANY
Tel. +49(0)6084-3764
Reviewer: David Holgate - TNT UK
Reviewed: May, 2008

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Swiss Precision The Story of the Thorens TD 124 and Other Classic ...

 

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An usual book: Optical Turntable as an Interface for Musical Performance

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Optical Turntable as an Interface for Musical ... - Dspace@mit

 

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Not Just Mad Englishmen and a Dog: The Colonial Tuning of Music on Record: 1900-1908 (Working Paper by Vibodh Parthasarathi

http://jmi.ac.in/upload/menuupload/not_vp.pdf

 

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Vikram Sampath: My Name is Gauhar Jaan- The Life and Times of a Musician

Vikram Sampath ~ Author | My Name is Gauhar Jaan! | Splendours of Royal Mysore

 

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Caruso's First Recordings: Myth and Reality (SP Martland)

http://www.arsc-audio.org/journals/v25/v25n2p192-201.pdf

 

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The Fred Gaisberg Diaries:

http://www.recordingpioneers.com/docs/GAISBERG_DIARIES_1.pdf

http://www.recordingpioneers.com/docs/GAISBERG_DIARIES_2.pdf

 

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Early Voice Recordings of Japanese Storytelling: J Scott Miller

http://journal.oraltradition.org/files/articles/11ii/10_miller.pdf

 

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A Spiral way- How phonograph changed Ethnography
A Spiral Way: How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography - Erika Brady - Google Books

 

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NEW FACTORS IN PHONOGRAPH PREAMPLIFIER DESIGN*
http://www.davidreaton.com/PDFs/Holman_AES_paper.pdf

 

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PHONOGRAPH RECORD-US patent registation
Patent US1946596 - PHONOGRAPH RECORD - Google Patents