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The document discusses various audio recording and playback technologies, including stomp music, phonographs, tape recorders, portable audio players, compact discs, and microphones. It highlights the historical development of these devices, such as the invention of the phonograph by Edison and the introduction of the Walkman by Sony. Additionally, it touches on sound reproduction technologies like speakers, sound cards, and turntables, as well as the evolution of the telephone and sound recording methods.
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The document discusses various audio recording and playback technologies, including stomp music, phonographs, tape recorders, portable audio players, compact discs, and microphones. It highlights the historical development of these devices, such as the invention of the phonograph by Edison and the introduction of the Walkman by Sony. Additionally, it touches on sound reproduction technologies like speakers, sound cards, and turntables, as well as the evolution of the telephone and sound recording methods.
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Stomp
Stomp is a type of musical theme, with
fast rhythm, whose beat is accented
hitting the ground with his foot. It was very
popular in thetraditional jazzand in the
time ofthe Swing.
The use in this type of compositions of
an eight-bar progression
prototypical, made that progression
known as "stomp"
progression. The progression is based
in the last chorus of the original piano version of the song 'King Porter Stomp', 1
where the chords for the last 10 bars are:
Phonograph
Edison's phonograph.
The phonograph was the device most
common to reproducesoundsrecordings
since the decade of 1870until the decade
de [Link] phonograph was invented by
Thomas Alva Edison,Eldridge R.
Johnson and Émile Berliner.
Tape recorder
"Recorder" redirects here. For other meanings,
seerecorder (disambiguation).
Wire recorder,it was the first
tape recorder
Open reel tape recorder.
Portable audio player
Portable audio player
mobile device that allows the user
listen to previously recorded sounds.
These players generally use
batteriesas a power supply.
In addition, they can use different types of
storage media,so much
analogous to digital. The sound is
issued throughspeakerso
headphones.
Compact disc
The disc compact (known
commonly known as CD by the initials in
Englishof the Compact Disc) is adisco
opticalused forstore datain
formatdigitalconsistent in any
type of informationaudioimages
videodocumentsand other data).
Standard CDs have a diameter of 12
centimetersa thickness of 1.2 millimeters
and can store up to 80 minutes of
audio o 700MBof data. TheMini-CD
they have 8cmand are used for the
distribution of simple y from
controllers storing up to 24
audio minutes or 214 MB of data.
Radio (communication medium)
For other uses of this term, see
Radio.
For the characteristics of waves
radio, its classification and uses outside of
medium field of communication, see
Radiofrequency.
For the basic technical aspects and
uses of transmissions in the
frequency of radio see
Radiocommunication.
Walkman
The legendary Sony walkman.
The walkman was aaudio playerstereo
laptop launched in the market by the company
JapaneseSonyin [Link] first model was the
TPS-L2. From this model and its successors
reviews, Sony sold millions of units,
although when it appeared, in 1979, few could
afford (to buy) one due to its high
price. The walkman allowed for quality of
sound, through stereo headphones, similar to the
from a homemade team, without being so bulky.
Microphone
Basically, a microphone (from English
microphone, minted in the17th centurya
starting from the prefix micro, "small" and the
Ancient Greek ϕωνή- foné, "voice" is a
device used to transform the
sound wavesinelectric energyy
vice versa in processes ofrecordingy
reproduction of sound consists
essentially in a drawn diaphragm
intermittently for aelectromagnet
that, when vibrating, modifies the current
transmitted by the different pressures to
a circuit.
Phone
The telephone is a device of
telecommunicationsdesigned to transmit
acoustic signals at a distance through
electrical signals.
For a long timeAlexander Graham Bell
he was considered the inventor of the telephone, along with
withElisha [Link], Bell was not the
inventor of thisdevicebut only the
first to patent it. This occurred in 1876.
Speaker
For the song ofLuis Alberto
Spinetta,seeSpeaker (song).
A loudspeaker (also known as
speakingSouth AmericaCosta
Rica,El SalvadorHonduras1it is a
electroacoustic transducerused
for thesound [Link] or
several speakers can form a
acoustic screen.
Sound card
A sound card is a sound board.
aexpansion cardforcomputers
that allows the output ofaudiocontrolled by
a computer program calledcontroller
(driver).
The typical use of sound cards consists
to do so, through a program that acts as
mixerthat multimedia applications
the audio component sounds and can
to be managed.
The phonautograph
It was the first device capable of
record sound literally speaking, already
that thesoundit is recorded in the form of a
line on a support that consisted of
acylinderwith smoke from alamp
although after era impossible
reproduce it, however this artifact
it helped to see that it was possible the
sound recording, it was also used for
experiments in the field of
audition.
THE TURNTABLE
In 1925, it appeared for the first time
see the turntable, its operation is
It was based on the gramophone one, but with
small differences and improvements. For
to start, I used a small engine
electric what moved the disco
replacing the crank, also the
sound reproduction was electric and
not electroacoustic as it used to be
habitual, which allowed selecting the
volume of reproduction and improvement
both the quality and the wear of
disco.
boombox, boom-
box, boombox or tape recorder
(in Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile) is
aportable audio equipment stereocapable
to play music fromstations of
radioo recorded usually
incassettesCDoUSB memoryand with a
relative sound power.
THE TELEPHONE
System ofsound recording.
Specifically,Recording
analogde sound y, more
specifically,Mechanical recording
analog
In 1898,Valdemar Poulsen invented
the telegraph, the first machine
that records sound in a way
magnetic. He called it that because the
Poulsen's intention was to record a
voice message in the event that a phone call occurs on your
absence of the user. In a sense, Poulsen invented the
primeautomatic answering machine.