The Bettini Reproducer
Gianni Bettini (1860-1938)
Poster, ca. 1890
Gift of Robert A. Truax, 2000
Motion Picture, Broadcasting
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Recorded Sound Division
Purchase, 1985 (195.2a, 195.2b)
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Native-Italian Gianni Bettini (1860-1938) recorded and sold cylinders
in New York City in the 1890s. Bettini's patented improvements to
existing cylinder machines included a playback device which purportedly
improved the sound quality of recordings. Bettini cylinders are
among the rarest in existence. The most intriguing of those he made
were recordings of President Benjamin Harrison and Mark Twain, both
now lost. Shown is his poster and a cylinder.
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