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The Power of Sound

Here at the Groovalution, we owe a great deal of gratitude to Emile Berliner. On this day in 1891, Berliner patented the first telegraph and telephone combo that played music. He gave us the first successful consumer sound gadget, which paved the way for all the audio devices (and streaming!) we enjoy today.

Thomas Edison's tinfoil phonograph may have come first in 1877, but it produced poor quality sounds from round cylinders. Alexander Graham Bell's graphophone required wax cylinders to record, limiting the mass-production of music or sounds.

Berliner's ingenious gramophone system recorded on flat disks or records, which made mass-production of sound recordings possible. He even convinced famous artists to record using his system, forever changing the music industry and the power that sound has in our daily lives.

Take a listen to the sounds of our own Groovalutionary ellee ven. Her genre Groovetonics, streams anywhere music lovers like to listen, such as Tidal, Spotify, iTunes and Youtube Music. We think Edison, Bell and Berliner would all be proud!

link to second to none album by ellee ven

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