Phonograph record a "De luxe" price. Later, Decca Records introduced vinyl Deccalite 78s, while other record companies used vinyl formulations trademarked as Metrolite, Merco Plastic, and Sav-o-flex, but these were mainly used to produce "unbreakable" children's records and special thin vinyl DJ pressings for shipment to radio stations. In the 1890s, the recording formats of the earliest (toy) discs were mainly 12.5 cm (nominally 5 inches) in diameter; by the mid-1890s, the discs were usually 7 inches (nominally 17.5 cm) in diameter. By 1910, the 10-inch (25.4 cm) record was by far the most popular standard, holding about of music or other
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