1926 SOUND WAVE. THE GRAMOPHONE JOURNAL. Rare Audiophile History - Black Minstrels, &c.

An exceptionally scarce entire year of the first serious audiophile publication ever produced. It contains extensive accounts of audio and recording advances in technology, recording artists of the time, the influence of music, biographies of musicians, conductors, etc., tons of classic adverts, material related to black minstrels, etc., 

Dunlop, Arthur Sheriff [Founder]. Sound Wave. The Gramophone Journal. With which is Incorporated the Phone Trader & Recorder. January through December, 1926. Complete. Finsbury. 1926. 896pp.

Inscribed to W. S. Meadmore [one of the most extensive contributors to the present volume]. Good + to very good, rubbed, just through at extremities. Contents very crisp, clean, and complete. Very scarce. 

Contents include:

A Monthly Feature, "This Month's Best Sellers," by Zonophone Records

Music Appreciation and Gramophone Culture by William B. Parkin

Full Page Adverts for ACO Records

Full Page Advert for Military Tattoo. Band of Her Majesty's Scots Guards

Under Which Flag - Jazz or Syncopation? By The Minstrel

Full Page Advert of Leff Pouishnoff Recommending The Cliftophone

Biography of Dora Labbette by W. S. Meadmore

Full Page Adverts for Thomas A. Edison Limited, Edison Phonographs, ec.

Japanese Musical Instruments by F. C. Prevot

The Fads of Famous Vocalists

World's Most Famous Dog. Nipper Who Listened for His Master's Voice

Double Page Advert for The Algraphone

The Last Appearance by M. Steen

The East London Gramophone Society

The Chocolate Coloured Coon [G. H. Elliott who performed in black-face, content in minstrels, etc.]

More Hawaiian Music on Zonophones

Full Page Advert for Percy Grainger on Columbia Records

Musical Appreciation and Gramophone Culture by William B. Parkin

Singing to Jackeroos. Our Camp-Fire Concerts in the Far Out-Back [ Australia ]

The Great Advance in Choral Recording by William B. Parkin

A Mighty Columbia Piano Recording. Percy Grainger's New Achievement

John Coates. The Arch Chanter by W. S. Meadmore

Albert Hall on Gramophone. Over Eight Hundred Voices Recorded Together

Hatch and Carpenter. Clever Entertainers Make their Debut on Zonophone  [ Vaudeville, Black Minstrels ]

The British Industries Fair

Acoustics, or the Science of Sound, Particularly as Applied to the Gramophone by Harry A. Gaydon [An Extensive Series]

Four Harmony Kings. Record for Edison Bell [ spin-off of the Jubilee Singers ]

The World of Music by The Minstrel

Musical Notes on Recorded Music. Two Great French Works by H. Wild

Frederick E. Weatherly. A Character Sketch by Irma Blanckensee

A Day at Hayes. The Romance of a Wonderful Industry by Theodore Curzon

Rhene-Baton Conducts the Aeolian Orchestra. Rimsky Korsakov's "Easter" Overture by Apreggio

Sir Henry J. Wood by W. S. Meadmore

Two Spanish Gentleman by Charlotte Mansfield

 Leslie D. Jeffries. Director of the Rialto Orchestra

Mr. Burt Reynolds, of Jake Graham, Launches Own Business.

Vaughan Williams' "London Symphony."

The Modern Music Lover's Credo

Reaction against the Classical Composers

Music and Morals by William B. Parkin

Elena Gerhardt by W. S. Meadmore

Homochord Progress

Amazing "Student Prince" Theatre Records

Sound Photography. Scientist Photograph's Melba's Voice by R. Fraser.

Unclean Music. Bach as a Divine Kind of Kruschen Salts

The "King of Instruments" on "His Master's Voice" Records [Organ]

More About Organ Recording by The Minstrel

Tchaikovsky's First Pianoforte Concerto on Vocalion by W. S. Meadmore

Columbia Recording Artists at Covent Garden [Bruno Walter, Percy Pitt, Badini, Francesco Merli, Bianca Scacciati, Norman Allin, and Charles Hackett]

Thorpe Bates by W. S. Meadmore

The First Record of a Cossack Choir

A Valuable Biography of Robert Schumann by Frederick Niecks

Edith Lorand Concert

The Gramophone and Wireless. A Revision Up to Date

The Singing Sophomores - A New Rage

Full Page Advert for The Mikiphone Pocket Gramophone [ the first portable hand-held device of its kind ever]

Billy Mayerl

Full Page Advert for Lady by Good with Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire

The Passing of a Pioneer. Edward Alfred Graham. 1882 - 1926. by T. C.

G. H. Elliott's Latest on "ACO." "The popularity of the Chocolate-coloured Coon still continues to grow. . ."

Layton & Johnstone by W. S. Meadmore

Dick Henderson. The "ACO" Artist who made the King Laugh.

The Opus No. 1. by M. Steen

The Marvel of the Microphone at Covent Garden

Recording "In Situ." The First from Covent Garden by H. Wild

John Thorne by W. S. Meadmore

The Aldershot Military Tattoo. Wonderful Sound Photographs

Magnetism between the Performer and Audience.

Full Page Advert for A New Electric Recording Triumph of Sir Henry J Wood's Mighty Record of 1812. In Five Parts - Hear the Astounding Finale!

Recording by Light by "Contact."

Hubert Eisdell by W. S. Meadmore 

Full Page Advert "First Release of Records by The Houston Sisters { The Irresistibles }

The New Recording by Ernest Newman

The Gramophonists' Alpha and Omega. 

Difficulties of Contemporary Music

The Spread of British Music in Japan

The Plastic Age in Music by Leighton Chambers

The Revellers by Sutton Ingram

Marcel Dupre and the Queen's Hall Organ. Notable Recording. By The Minstrel

The New Viva-tonal Gramophone

The Fascination of Folk-Music

The Panatrope. A New and Remarkable Reproducing Instrument

Moisewitsch Returns to America

Edwin Evan's Opinion on the Gramophone

Michael Zacharewitsch by W. S. Meadmore

Arabian Musical Instruments and their European Types by F. C. Prevot

The Future of Studio Recording

The "Nigger Quartet." by H. Wild [Fascinating on musical cultural appropriation of southern negro melodies, and the music of native Americans]

Dale Smith. A Great Interpreter of Song by W. S. Meadmore

The Twenty-Four Preludes of Chopin. by Afflatus [do we want to know how he obtained this moniker?]

George Bernard Shaw Records His Voice for Posterity, etc., etc. etc.,