The Lost Chord
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"The Lost Chord" is a song set in 1877 by Arthur Sullivan to a poem by Adelaide Anne Procter called "A Lost Chord", published in 1860 in The English Woman's Journal. Sullivan composed the song at the
Victorian postcard
The composer's brother, Fred Sullivan
Song cover for "That Lost Barber Shop Chord"
Phonograph
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A phonograph, later called a gramophone, and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound.
The Lost Chord
…subtle musical structure that avoids an obviously sectional character, despite the poem's hymn-like form. In 1888, Thomas Edison sent his "Perfected" Phonograph to Mr. George Gouraud in London, England, and on 14 August 1888, Gouraud introduced the phonograph to London in a press conference, including the playing…
Thomas Edison with his second cylinder phonograph, photographed by Levin Corbin Handy in Washington, D.C., April 1878
Emile Berliner with the first disk gramophone he developed, in Hanover, Germany
An Edison Standard Phonograph that uses wax cylinders
Wood engraving published in The Illustrated Australian News, depicting a public demonstration of new technology at the Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia) on 8 August 1878.