brunswick phonograph model 117 restoration

The increased popularity of vinyl has led to the investment in new and modern record-pressing machines. Likewise, in the UK sales have increased five-fold from 2009 to 2014.Īs of 2017, 48 record pressing facilities remain worldwide, 18 in the United States and 30 in other countries. The phonograph record has made a niche resurgence in the early 21st century – 9.2 million records were sold in the U.S. From the 1990s to the 2010s, records continued to be manufactured and sold on a much smaller scale, and were especially used by disc jockeys (DJs), released by artists in some genres, and listened to by a niche market of audiophiles. By the late 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream in 1991.

Records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as compact cassette were mass-marketed. It had co-existed with the phonograph cylinder from the late 1880s and replaced it by the late 1920s.

The phonograph disc record was the primary medium used for music reproduction until late in the 20th century. The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record (especially in British English), vinyl record, or simply vinyl or record), is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat polyvinyl chloride (previously shellac) disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

Brunswick phonograph model 117 restoration