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His Master's Voice (HMV) was the name of a major British record label created in 1901 by The Gramophone Co. Ltd. [1] The phrase was coined in the late 1890s from the title of a painting by English artist Francis Barraud, which depicted a dog named Nipper listening to a wind-up disc gramophone and tilting his head. [2][3] In the original, ...
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, HMV continued to produce high-quality gramophones and phonographs, as well as radios and other audio equipment. The company also expanded into the production of film and music recordings, with a catalog that included everything from classical music to popular songs.
Mar 27, 2024 · Re: Hmv gramophone identify. One immediately thinks "fake" when seeing a horn gramophone but this looks more genuine than many. The brake mechanism looks very like that from a 100 portable but others may be able to say whether it was used on early machines. The labels look a little odd though.
- HMV ASD Series
- HMV CSD Series
- HMV SLS Boxed Sets
- HMV San Angel Series
- HMV Alp Mono Labels
The earliest ASDs have 3 digits after ASD. The first one is ASD 251 Scheherazade, conducted Beecham, and was issued in 1958, and the last one was ASD 655, Jacqueline Du Pre and Janet Baker, conducted Barbirolli, issued in 1965.
CSD is a HMV stereo label, very similar to ASD in sound. Many of the HMV CSD issues are non-classical, but there are many outstanding classical issues too. Some of the notable conductors on this label are Colin Davis, Goossens, Irving, Kurtz, Mackerras, Sargent, Silvestri, Susskind, Weldon. Outstanding artists include Jaqueline du Pre, Moura Lympan...
Early HMV boxed sets were issued as ASDs, such as ASD 331/3, Carmen. There are three series, the 3 digit series starting with SLS 751 (more commonly listed as ASD 274/7), and ending with SLS 999, in 1977. The SLS 5000 series started in 1974, so the two series ran in parallel for a while. The highest SLS 5000 series I've seen is SLS 5289 issued in 1...
Many Opera and vocal sets were issued in the SAN series, and included librettos, even if there was only 1 LP in the set, such as SAN 107, Cluytens conducting Faure's Requiem, and SAN 162, Carmina Burana.HMV started issuing SANs in 1963, with SAN 101/2. They were issued in gatefold sleeves if there was 1 or 2 records, boxes if there were 3 or more r...
Walter Legge, the very influential Producer for HMV, was unconvinced by stereo initially so his late 1950s & early 1960s mono recordings are very fine, and rival the early stereos. HMV, started issuing mono ALP records in 1952, starting with ALP 1001, Cantelli conducting Tchaikovsky's Symphony no 5. The original label was red/gold. The last red/gol...
Here is a brief history about the gramophones exported / made by The Gramophone Co Ltd (HMV) for the Australian and New Zealand market. A HMV catalogue from 1923 lists the following models that were certainly marketed for Australia and New Zealand.
The HMV Model 1 Automatic record changer – introduced to the British market in 1928 - was the largest and most expensive acoustic gramophone offered by the Gramophone Company Ltd. This elusive machine is rare in the United Kingdom, and virtually unknown to most collectors.
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British HMV Gramophones. Just some of the many British H.M.V gramophones in the collection.
