Unusual types of gramophone records Sievey. Chocolate records about three inches in diameter, and small players made for them, were marketed as a novelty in Europe in 1903–1904. After a record wore out or ceased to amuse, it could be eaten. In 1973, the Kingdom of Bhutan issued several unusual postage stamps that are playable miniature phonograph records. These thin plastic single-sided adhesive-backed 33 RPM discs feature folk music and tourism information. Not very practical for actual postal use and rarely seen canceled, they were designed as revenue-generating novelties and were initially scorned as such by most stamp collectors. Their small diameters (approximately 7 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