Phonographs & Gramophones
A DigitalNZ Story by National Library of New Zealand
This selection of images is used in the Pictures of musical note online exhibition on the National Libary website.
Carol Cunningham promoting the newly produced record "Haere Mai".
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Andrew Balting's phonograph parlour at 97 Hardy Street, Nelson
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Dog Chris, listening to the gramophone, Antarctica
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![Image: Columbia Records :Maori music. Columbia new process records; electric recording without scratch. [1920-30s].](https://images.digitalnz.org/kfXA6x7EMWtmzQrXp9uLsYVg7Y8=/368x0/https%3A%2F%2Fndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz%2FNLNZStreamGate%2Fget%3Fdps_pid%3DIE206989 "Columbia Records :Maori music. Columbia new process records; electric recording without scratch. [1920-30s].")
Advertising pamphlet - Kiwi Gramophone Records
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![Image: Columbus Radio Centre Ltd :You will always find the brightest recorded hits of today and tomorrow on these gramophone discs - TANZA, Tasman, Rodeo. For perfect reproduction a Columbus radio-gramophone combination. Columbus Radio centres throughout New Zealand. [ca 1948-1950].](https://images.digitalnz.org/DAjZ75ROm77SbprQgnv2ih2Q5L8=/368x0/https%3A%2F%2Fndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz%2FNLNZStreamGate%2Fget%3Fdps_pid%3DIE260557 "Columbus Radio Centre Ltd :You will always find the brightest recorded hits of today and tomorrow on these gramophone discs - TANZA, Tasman, Rodeo. For perfect reproduction a Columbus radio-gramophone combination. Columbus Radio centres throughout New Zealand. [ca 1948-1950].")
![Image: W L Jenness, gramophone, piano and music dealer, Lower Hutt, Wellington. The big three: Brinsmead, HMV, Gulbransen [Record sleeve. ca 1926?]](https://images.digitalnz.org/O3lMu2NuxcoibOaZeuZbyMDfKds=/368x0/https%3A%2F%2Fndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz%2FNLNZStreamGate%2Fget%3Fdps_pid%3DIE36333792 "W L Jenness, gramophone, piano and music dealer, Lower Hutt, Wellington. The big three: Brinsmead, HMV, Gulbransen [Record sleeve. ca 1926?]")
![Image: His Master's Voice (Australia) :Music in the home ... "His Master's Voice" radiograms, "His Master's Voice" record players. [ca 1939].](https://images.digitalnz.org/gMfUp5qop5rLOhhOGy6Wvul41tw=/368x0/https%3A%2F%2Fndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz%2FNLNZStreamGate%2Fget%3Fdps_pid%3DIE192046 "His Master's Voice (Australia) :Music in the home ... \"His Master's Voice\" radiograms, \"His Master's Voice\" record players. [ca 1939].")