
Berliner Gramophone
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Aug 24, 2026
Early Recording Battles: The Fight for the Future of Recorded Sound.
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13:48Jack StanleyGUEST
You know, all of them.
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13:50Jack StanleyGUEST
And so the Berliner Gramophone became a big, big deal, becomes extremely successful, and like any business that becomes extremely successful, lots of people try to bring it down.
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14:04Jack StanleyGUEST
And if there ever is an opportunity, to create a miniseries, the early recording industry would be incredible because there was so much intrigue, so much dirty business, so much backstabbing.
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14:26Jack StanleyGUEST
So incestuous.
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19:03Jack StanleyGUEST
Well, that didn't go over too well with Seaman.
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19:08Jack StanleyGUEST
And he was working with some other people and eventually developed the Universal Talking Machine Company, which today would produce what we call the Zonophone record.
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19:20Jack StanleyGUEST
And Zonophone, of course, eventually replaces the Berliner Gramophone through a little skullduggery.
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19:29Jack StanleyGUEST
And also because of Columbia wanting to get rid of Berliner because they were terrified of Berliner.