Visiting the origins of recorded music in Japan | Kanazawa Phonograph Museum

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I stopped by the Phonograph Museum in Kanazawa, Japan. This museum, on three floors, features lovingly-maintained displays of a large variety of pre-electric record players, from early wax cylinders to Edison diamond discs to regular 78 rpm records of the 1910s and 1920s. There was also a demonstration, in which a museum representative played several of the acoustic players for a group of us. Some gramophones have huge loud horns, others route the sound through holes in the console... but they all had impressive volume. Even more impressive is that no electricity is required - you just crank it by hand and it spins for three minutes or so, the bumps on the record vibrating the needle. The vibrations are amplified as surprisingly clear sound.
In this video I've included some gorgeous equipment and records from the late 1880s until about 1927. This museum is highly recommended for any fan of music, old technology, and/or how technology was introduced to Japan in the early days of recorded sound.
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[@clarkmadrosen1780]

It sounded perfect. 😊 thanks

[@ElijahPerrin80]

This was wonderfully enjoyable, thank you.

[@loudmouthnewyorker2803]

Noticing most of the visitors were our age. Very interesting museum indeed. You ain't gonna see any young people there.

[@T1DWanderer]

True, although there was a pair of young college-aged women there watching the demonstration, and also having some of the LPs played to them through headphones. So the knowledge is being passed on to some degree