ABSTRACT

A New York firm established in 1916. The Melodograph disc player was advertised in Cosmopolitan for November 1916, selling for $10 by mail order. It was said to be made of a “secret process composition of metals” which cannot warp and will not rust. Using any kind of needle, it could play either vertical or lateral cut records (by turning the soundbox). The firm also issued some vertical-cut discs of their own, with the Melodograph label, in seven-inch size. The firm petitioned for bankruptcy on 5 Sep 1917. [NAG 36 (Spring 1981) reproduces the Cosmopolitan advertisement on p. 12; Rust 1978.]

A British record, 10-inch and 12-inch size, issued in December 1918 by Morgan, Scott & Co., Ltd., religious music publishers. The discs were made by the Crystalate Record Manufacturing Co., Ltd., from Guardsman matrices of the Invicta Record Co., Ltd.