Gauhar Jan_ Bhupali

[shubhangiravindra]

in this way can we get balgandharv recording?

[Spiritakis]

Gentlemen,

This is a horn for making of acoustic recordings: it captures the voice directly on the wax master, not via electrical transformation like the microphone. Unfortunately, the microphone and the far better in terms of sound quality electrical recordings came a bit too late (1925) for Gauhar Jaan to benefit from it. By that time she was past his prime and indeed she died only five years later.

[thiagojust]

it´s the mic of a wax recording system. Like a backwards gramophone.

The singer sings into it and its air pressures the needle that cuts the wax disc.

[woodkk1]

Is that a gramophone in the background? If not what is it?

[cactus1762]

I think it is a microphone, and the photo was apparently taken in a studio during a recording. I have read in memoirs of other singers from that period that the singer had to sing putting his/her head inside that cone-shaped microphone during the recording. The master recording was done on a wax disc. In this picture the singer and her accompanist musicians are obviously posing for the photo, possibly during a break.

[gomarathe]

I think you are right. Some of Gauhar Jan's recording was done in 1903!

[gomarathe]

I also think that it is a microphone.

[deepaksgulvadi]

Thanks for posting this vintage song. Please upload more songs of Gauhar Jan, Mehbub Jan Sholapur, Junagadh etc.