Berliners were the first disc records. Emile Berliner (inventor of the flat disc gramophone record) first produced a toy gramophone and a series of 5 inch discs to play on it circa 1890. A rather more successful enterprise was started in 1894, marketing 7 inch discs and a range of machines to play them on. Berliner ran into legal difficulties which ultimately forced him out of business in the USA in 1900, however, one of his associates, Fred Gaisberg (who is likely the piano accompanist on this recording), went to England in July 1898 and founded The Gramophone Company Ltd, and another, Eldridge Johnson, soon formed what ultimately became the Victor Talking Machine Company after the demise of the Berliner company.
A note on this transfer: Speed constancy was not a strong suit of either early recording or playback equipment. For this record, I had my turntable set at approximately 74 rpm at the beginning, and where the pitch of the music began to rise due to the decreasing speed of the recording machine, I slowed my turntable down accordingly, to try to keep the music on pitch. By its end I had the speed down to somewhere between 68 1/2 and 69 rpm.
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