Phonograph "gramophones" or "talking-machines". His "gramophone record" was the first disc record to be offered to the public. They were five inches (12.7 cm) in diameter and recorded on one side only. Seven-inch (17.5 cm) records followed in 1895. Also in 1895 Berliner replaced the hard rubber used to make the discs with a shellac compound. Berliner's early records had poor sound quality, however. Work by Eldridge R. Johnson improved the sound fidelity to a point where it was as good as the cylinder. By 1901, ten-inch (25 cm) records were marketed by Johnson and Berliner's Victor Talking Machine Company, and
Gramophone (magazine) classical record industry. The first 50 were revealed in the May 2012 issue and on "Gramophone"’s website, and each year will see another intake of honorees into the Hall of Fame. Glenn Gould wrote a parody review in the style of "Gramophone" for the liner notes to his 1968 recording of Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony" transcribed for solo piano by Liszt. The review, which purports to be from "the English magazine "The Phonograph"" includes this passage: Unusual recordings of the Beethoven Fifth are, of course, no novelty to the British collector. One calls to mind that elegiac statement Sir Joshua committed