Gramophone Company

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The Gramophone Company was a pioneering British record company and early recording industry leader that later became part of EMI.

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Label Occurrences
Gramophone Company canonical 2
The Gramophone Company 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf British company
music industry company
record company
activity music publishing
record distribution
record manufacturing
sound recording
associatedWith Berliner Gramophone NERFINISHED
Victor Talking Machine Company NERFINISHED
country United Kingdom
dissolvedIn 1931
employed A&R staff
recording engineers
foundedBy Emil Berliner NERFINISHED
William Barry Owen NERFINISHED
foundedIn 1898
headquartersLocation London NERFINISHED
industry music industry
recording industry
inspiredBy Emil Berliner’s gramophone invention
legacy foundation of EMI’s global record business
locationFounded London NERFINISHED
mergedInto EMI NERFINISHED
Electric and Musical Industries NERFINISHED
mergedWith Columbia Graphophone Company NERFINISHED
mergerDate 1931
notableBrand His Master’s Voice NERFINISHED
notableFor early commercial disc recordings
international record catalogues
pioneering the British recording industry
notableOffice Hayes, Middlesex NERFINISHED
operatedIn British Empire NERFINISHED
United Kingdom NERFINISHED
predecessorOf EMI Records NERFINISHED
product gramophone records
gramophones
phonographs
record labels
record players
recordedGenre classical music
opera
popular music
spoken word
status defunct
successor EMI NERFINISHED
timePeriod early 20th century
late 19th century
usedLogo Nipper listening to a gramophone NERFINISHED

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EMI Group predecessor Gramophone Company
His Master’s Voice parentCompany Gramophone Company
this entity surface form: The Gramophone Company
Berliner Gramophone Company associatedWith Gramophone Company