Vinyl records have been around for a long time and not many people today know what they are or why we have them. Vinyl records were made to bring music to life to make people happy with music that they can play all the time.
Record players were invented by Thomas Edison who called them phonographs in 1877. This new device was able to record and play sound with the use of tin foil covered cardboard cylinder for playback.
In 1888 a recording of Arthur Sullivan's song “The Lost Chord” was etched onto a phonograph cylinder; this was the first song to be recorded and played on vinyl.
In 1930, RCA Victor launched the first commercially-available vinyl long-playing record. These revolutionary discs were designed for playback pressed on a 12″ diameter flexible plastic disc. In 1948 a man named Peter Goldmark created the first long playing record; this vinyl had a capacity of 21 minutes of play time.
Vinyl had good sound quality allowing for the music it was playing to be heard more open and more loud in sound for everyone to hear in a house or restaurant. The records can last up to one to a hundred years but it all comes down to how well you can take care of the records. Most of vinyl records are valuable because of the music they have on the record, the most valuable record would be the first one ever recorded by Arthur Sullivan the song was called “The Lost Chord.”
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