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> In a message dated 5/18/2010 1:22:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> Columbia  did not only use the name Graphophone in the acoustical era. 
> For
> years  in the teens the record labels showed the name Columbia Phonograph
> Company.    Mike Biel  [log in to unmask]
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> and if I recall, the Columbia Phonograph Co. Gen'l was founded in  1894.
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Columbia had to find a different name for their machines; the Victor firm
(and their "ancestor," Berliner) were using, and may have held the rights,
to the name "Gramophone?" Early in the 20th centurym "phonograph"
refered to Edison's cylinder machines; again, he may have held rights to
that term?

Steven C. Barr