{"id":2503,"date":"2014-12-15T23:13:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T04:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2503"},"modified":"2014-12-15T23:47:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T04:47:45","slug":"from-tinsel-town-to-tinfoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2503","title":{"rendered":"From Tinsel Town to Tinfoil"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I listen to a lot of music these days.\u00a0 Mostly Alternative.\u00a0 But… as I drove around today, I had iTunes Radio playing in my car …. streaming through my iPhone.\u00a0\u00a0 And tonight, as I cleaned, I listed to Pandora… piped into our little speaker system.\u00a0 We have come a long way baby.\u00a0 And I love it.<\/p>\n

But…..little did I know.\u00a0\u00a0 Today is a big dang day… in history.
\nFor you, for me…. for everyone from The Talking Heads to Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n

On this date, in 1877, Mr. Thomas Alva Edison…. YES…. Edison…. invented the phonograph.<\/p>\n

While other inventors had produced devices that could record sounds, Tommy A’s phonograph was the first to be able to REPRODUCE the recorded sound.\u00a0\u00a0 AND…..\u00a0 there in lies the Magic.<\/p>\n

His phonograph originally recorded sound onto a tinfoil sheet phonograph cylinder…. and as I mentioned before…. it could also reproduce those sounds.\u00a0 And just like THAT…. the music industry was born.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The phonograph was later known as the gramophone.\u00a0 Hence… the Grammy’s.<\/p>\n

Alexander Graham Bell made several improvements in the 1880s….. including the use of wax-coated cardboard cylinders.\u00a0 There was also a little\u00a0 cutting stylus-deal…. that moved from side to side in a “zig zag” pattern across the record.\u00a0 It made little grooves… and such.<\/p>\n

Of course…. other improvements were made throughout the years.\u00a0\u00a0 You know…. like the turntable and its drive system… with the scratchy needle…. and of course, the sound system.<\/p>\n

These days … the starlets walk down the red carpet… and accept their awards for their recorded sounds.\u00a0 We applaud them.\u00a0 We support them.\u00a0 Their music makes us feel good.\u00a0 Or bad.\u00a0 Or happy, sad, wired, or glad.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless…. music is a thing of beauty.\u00a0 It touches our hearts… right through our ears.\u00a0 Thankfully, someone figured out how to record it…. and then reproduce it….. for all of us.<\/p>\n

So tonight, crank up your favorite tunes.. and do a little swirly dance in your living.\u00a0 Give a shout out to Alex and Tommy and all the boys & girls …. who got our toes to tappin’ and our fingers snappin’.<\/p>\n

We Got the Groove.<\/p>\n

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.<\/span>\u00a0 –Plato<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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