In the late ninetenth and early twentieth
centuries, many families bought player
pianos. These pianos played music
programmed on perforated
but you could also play them like a 'normal'
piano. When the 2
(the
wireless) became ¹
pianos began to disappear.
player
The first phonographs appeared more or
less around the beginning of the twentieth
century. The music was on **
made of aluminium foil. When people listened
to the music a few times, the foil broke. Later,
could hold longer
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and people could play
them more often.
Gramophones were similar to phonographs,
but they had the music on flat vinyl
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The disks turned, and a
or a small diamond took
the music off the record.
Sony
the 'Walkman' in
1979. That made it possible to go for walk
travel or do sports and listen to music at
same time.