Search results
The Gramophone Company Limited (The Gramophone Co. Ltd.), based in the United Kingdom and founded by Emil Berliner, was one of the early recording companies, the parent organisation for the His Master's Voice (HMV) label, and the European affiliate of the American Victor Talking Machine Company.
- 31 March 1931; 92 years ago
- United Kingdom
- April 1898; 125 years ago
- Electric and Musical Industries (EMI)
His Master's Voice (HMV) was the name of a major British record label created in 1901 by The Gramophone Co. Ltd. The phrase was coined in the late 1890s from the title of a painting by English artist Francis Barraud, which depicted a dog named Nipper listening to a wind-up disc gramophone and tilting his head.
People also ask
What is the Gramophone Company discography?
When did the Gramophone Company start?
Where did the Gramophone trademark image come from?
What is a gramophone recording database?
We are proud to host the most extensive database of the 78rpm format records released by The Gramophone Company and EMI from the end of the 19th century to the mid-1950s.
The Gramophone Company Discography is a searchable database of recordings made by the Gramophone Company, and its successor corporations during the 78 RPM era beginning in 1898. The database will be invaluable to researchers, historians and scholars interested in the details of historical recordings, both published and unpublished.
The Gramophone Co.'s initial business was artist and repertoire-management and to import gramophones (disc recorders) and discs from the U.S.A. It opened its first recording studio in Maiden Lane, London, on 6 August 1898.
The Gramophone Company; London. Berliner and other businessmen create the Gramophone Company, Ltd. of London. In December 1900 the Gramophone Company was for a few years renamed the Gramophone & Typewriter Ltd. The company acquired parts from Johnson, and assembled them in London.
The company was an early recording company that also expanded into sourcing and manufacturing gramophones and wireless sets. In 1900, the company briefly changed its name to Gramophone and Typewriter Ltd however, except for these few years, the company remained the Gramophone Company Limited until the merger in 1931.
