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ELECTRICALLY SPEAKING
From the first voice and music recordings of the 1800s, nothing much changed in the early part of the 1900s. Wind-up gramophones with paper mache cones were used for the reproduction of music that was stored on metal or wax discs. There was no electronic amplification – the recording was done by using a diaphragm to carve grooves into a disc. Electronic amplification followed and then tape recording, vinyl records, CDs, a brief excursion into compression, such as MP3, and now the superdigital age, where people think nothing of downloading 20 megabytes of a music collection and storing it on a 60 gigabyte drive, connected to earphones of limited reproduction quality.
 
 
 
 
 

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