ON TOP OF THE WAVE
VHAT THE GRAMOPHONE HAS DONE. Five and a half years ago I fell In love with the gramophone, which in those days was considered not quite a respectable thing to do. Not merely dit 1 my friends declare that the artistic status of the gramophone was deplorable, but they argued that it would soon be superseded by radio, writes Mr. Compton Mackenzie in the "Sunday Pictorial." Well, the gramophone has not been superseded by radio, and it never will be; but radio has had an immensely beneficial effect on the'gramophone, bo that nowadays I find my passion is considered as respectable and normal as a passion for books. In five and a half years I have seen my contention that the gramophone would ultimately serve music as the printing press has served literature more completely justified than I ever hoped possible in bo short a time. Instead of wasting my enthusiasm with a party of cranks in a backwater
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 20
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164ON TOP OF THE WAVE Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 20
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