Intermediate Monarch Gramophone

The earliest machine to record and play back sound was Thomas Edison’s phonograph in 1878, which recorded onto wax cylinders. In 1888, Emile Berliner invented the gramophone, which played flat discs that we would recognise today as “records”, following which there was a surge in the market for recorded music, and for machines to play at home, with many companies competing for sales. The Gramophone Company was the British branch of Berliner’s US company, and produced gramophones under the name “His Masters Voice”, or HMV. The Intermediate Monarch was a medium-sized, medium-priced machine that sat between the “Senior” and “Junior “ Monarchs.

The earliest machine to record and play back sound was Thomas Edison’s phonograph in 1878, which recorded onto wax cylinders. In 1888, Emile Berliner invented the gramophone, which played flat discs that we would recognise today as “records”, following which there was a surge in the market for recorded music, and for machines to play at home, with many companies competing for sales. The Gramophone Company was the British branch of Berliner’s US company, and produced gramophones under the name “His Masters Voice”, or HMV. The Intermediate Monarch was a medium-sized, medium-priced machine that sat between the “Senior” and “Junior “ Monarchs.

The earliest machine to record and play back sound was Thomas Edison’s phonograph in 1878, which recorded onto wax cylinders. In 1888, Emile Berliner invented the gramophone, which played flat discs that we would recognise today as “records”, following which there was a surge in the market for recorded music, and for machines to play at home, with many companies competing for sales. The Gramophone Company was the British branch of Berliner’s US company, and produced gramophones under the name “His Masters Voice”, or HMV. The Intermediate Monarch was a medium-sized, medium-priced machine that sat between the “Senior” and “Junior “ Monarchs.