Noteworthy News archives
Noteworthy News, the newsletter of the automated music show, was published between 1985 - 2005.
The advertising man.He did whatever it took. |
The origin of records. Beware of what you listen to. |
A dealer's life. Not brutish and short, but his lot was a hard one. |
Little known facts. About better known people. |
Music box doctor. Repair hints from our medical musicologist, Nancy Fratti. |
Forgotten giant. Hawthorne and Sheble was an industry powerhouse. |
Hail, Columbia. Homage to the fathers of the Graphophone. |
Go to the source. Like the journalist, the collector needs a primary one. |
Who was Leon Douglass? The answer is revealed. |
Chicago, the phonograph, and the Fair.The 1892 exhibition was a seminal event. |
The phonographic menagerie. Nipper learns it's a zoo out there. |
The talk of Ohio. Ohio's native machine was born from a record pirate in Brooklyn. |
The uses of amber Its journey from primeval forests to the Higham reproducer. |
The role of the lac bug in recorded sound.They were expendable |
What was in a name? When your fate was cast by your moniker. |
Out and nearly out of print. A few sources worth the search. |
The U-S Everlasting Story. A durable record, a brittle machine. |
Politics, for the Record.Their record spoke for itself. |
The articulate doll.To make one wasn't child's play. |
Mail order mysteries. Whodunit? Sears was a suspect. |
Front-mount Columbia identification guide. With color photographs. |
Birth of the Victrola clones The babes of 1912. |
Who wants to remain impoverished? >A Noteworthy News quiz. |
Ordeal by record. The recordist's trial, and error |
Talk-o-Phone identification guide. With color photographs. |
Edison's secret partner. "Charles Batchelor shared the profits, but not the glory. |
Guys and dolls. The first-ever reference to phonograph dolls by Robin and Joan Rolfs. |
Edison's talking doll. Photographed in the original box. |
Come Show Your Horn The evolution of the horn on the cylinder phonograph. |
Sonora the Supreme A catalogue reprint of the outrageous $1000 machine |
Meet the Dealers "A look at our most important people |
Meet the Dealers, continued A continuing look at the people of the automated music show. | Pirates of the High Cs Entrepreneurs large and small plundered each other in the 1890s. |
1914 America and the phonograph on the eve of the Great War. |
I've Got A Secret Industrial espioniage strikes the talking machine industry. |
A little light on lamp phonographs Our illuminated manuscript. |
Who put the ola in Victrola? Meditation on a linguistic conundrum. |
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