Phonoland

Hi everybody,

I am not really familiar with grammophones but with jukeboxes.
We got a request from somebody who wants to write an article about early coin-operated record changer and asks if we know somebody owning the Automat IV built by the Deutsche Grammophon AG, Berlin.
Unfortunately we do not know of anybody.

To help I post this question here hoping somebody will be able to help.

To get an idea of what Carsten - who wants to write the article - already took care of you can check out his site: http://myvintagetv.com/updatepages1/cha ... videos.htm


Any help is appreciated.

Kind regards - Hildegard Stamann

Hello Hildegard,

I have just pulled this off the internet, please see if it is of any use to you.

Regards
Alan

Alan Hood
ami-man
UK

Bio:
.. The "Gramophone" in Deutsche Grammophon

It was as a fairground attraction that gramophones first excited wide-eyed amazement at fairs and sideshows more than a century ago. Raucous slogans proclaimed the virtues of the new recording technology: "Most powerful sound, loudest sound, most natural sound." The new-fangled talking machines, with their primitive cylinders and discs, were initially sold only in toy shops and bicycle shops. The inventor of the gramophone and disc, Emile Berliner, was quick to recognize the potential of "automatic music" and set about using the new technology to bring art and artists directly into the homes of people who other wise had no access to music of this kind.

Berliner's American patent for his new invention - the gramophone and a disc that could be played on it - is dated 29 September 1887. After a decade of experimentation , both technological and commercial, Berliner returned to Europe in 1898 and embarked on his plan of campaign by forming the Gramophone Company in London. In December 1898, together with his brother Joseph, he founded Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft in his native city of Hanover. There he built the first factory in the world for the exclusive manufacture of records. Within a decade, the company was producing several million records a year.

In 1941 Deutsche Grammophon was taken over by the electronics giant Siemens & Halske. Siemens's managing director, Ernst von Siemens, was well known for his knowledge and love of classical music, and it was this private passion that he now turned to the benefit of the record company. In 1962 the recording arm of Siemens linked up with the Dutch firm of Philips to create the DGG/PPI Group, which in 1971 led in turn to the creation of PolyGram. Siemens withdrew from the group in 1987, leaving Philips with a majority shareholding.

In 1998, the Seagram Company Ltd., based in Canada, acquired PolyGram and formed the Universal Music Group. Deutsche Grammophon is now part of Universal Classics.

Thank you, Alan.
I will forward this to the author. It might be helpful for part of the background of the "Deutsche Grammophone AG".
So far we could not find any having more details about this certain grammophone - but I am still waiting for one to answer.

Kind regards - Hildegard

P.S. I did expect you being on this board section, too.