April 18, 2025
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How women singers made gramophone a household object

Gauhar Jaan, first Indian artiste to record on gramophone When Thomas Alva Edison wrapped tin foil around a metal cylinder to create the phonograph (a crude recording device), in 1877, he sang ‘Mary had a little lamb’ to test it. He couldn’t possibly have imagined that in just 25 years, his ‘favourite invention’ would travel […]