Music Invention

James McGuire
English 322
Section #567


I think the invention that has made a real change
in people's lives is the phonograph. It has helped
people to record music and helped the economy. The
phonography this allowed them to make contracts with
record companies and fame and fortune in newspapers.
Music became so advanced that musicians could make
different kinds of recordings and new music that never
even existed. February 19, 2003's part of history,
Thomas Edison patented the phonograph.
Because this music invention made a real change
in people's lives, it started to revolutionize how to
record are voice over a machine. Now telephones are
made and they record a person talking over on the
other line like a microphone and wearing earphones to
hear the person on the other line. This change
occurred before my lifetime. In the past music
recordings were on vinal records, military uses the
morse code (an another form of speech) the radio and
using records in the 1920's till 50's. In the 1960's
and 70's music was recorded through a tape and then
recorded to a record.
Suddenly, people started using eight track tapes
in their veichles and then cassette tapes arrived as
disco fever began. Jazz, Blues, Rock n' Roll, British
Rock, Pop, Classical music started before those
periods of history. Today in the present future my
brother-in-law records his music onto the computer and
edits the sounds with a program he's been using. You
can make electronica music with a different similar
program which makes a lot of techno beats without
vocals. People consider is the music even with no
vocals.
Millions of people download MP3's to get music
today instead of buying it in the market. But, the
artists loose some of their profit from their music
and their record company as well. My brother-in-law is
a bass musician and he's trying to get a record deal
with a dude from the band called O-town. He has a
monkey I heard. I hope my brother's deal succeeds.
Lastly, people record music on a black Compact Disc
(CD) or DVD's to make their own movies.