WELLSBURG (AP) — Burdette Walters is known for his eclectic taste in antiques. He owns and operates the Friesian House Museum in his hometown of Wellsburg, population 700. He is a fan of early ...

Given the decidedly retro look of Como Audio’s wireless speakers and music systems — with warm wood finishes, control knobs instead of touch controls and support for FM radio — it should come as no ...

On any given day, try to avoid recorded sound and, well, good luck. Music, voice messages, the news, alerts at the Metro station — it all makes silence elusive. But less than 150 years ago, there was ...

Before the rise of synchronized sound in the late 1920s, movie theater owners tried all kinds of different ways to get words and music into the movie-going experience. They brought in enormous ...

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As music fans around the country celebrate Record Store Day, which started in 2008, Albert Menashe shares a look at his records and record players going back over 100 years. Albert Menashe sits in one ...

IN the interesting paper on “The Phonograph and Vowel Sounds” (vol. xviii. p. 340, et seq.), the authors remark that although the general results are the same as I have inferred from my own researches ...