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Memories on Film – Ken Scott at Abbey Road Studios

The EMI Archive Trust was delighted to sit down with the legendary Ken Scott at Abbey Road Studios. Ken Scott worked for EMI, at Abbey Road Studios where he began his time working in the tape library and worked his way up to become an incredible engineer who worked with the Beatles and on many […]

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Capacitance Altimeter

In early 1940, Alan Blumlein and his team at the EMI Central Research Labs began work on the technology behind the Capacitance Altimeter. This device works by measuring the differences in charge between a low lying aircraft and the charge at earth’s surface, therefore enabling aircraft and other vehicles to fly at night and in […]

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Memories of EMI – Tony Locantro

Tony Locantro worked for EMI for 54 years and during that time he worked with the EMI Archive Trust to curate Scott’s Music Box. This double CD compilation album showcases the music taken by Captain Scott on his fateful expedition to the South Pole. Tony was instrumental in choosing the correct pieces of music and artwork […]

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Memories of EMI – Ricky Ford

The Trust would like to thank Ricky Ford for sending in his memory of EMI. Ricky was an EMI recording artist as has shared a little about his time with the label. It was 1961 in Bristol a truly daring and controversial musical called A MAN DIES was produced, it was the first RocknRoll religious musical. […]

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The First Mini Disc

In 1924 The Gramophone Company was commissioned by the royal household on behalf of Princess Marie Louise to make a bespoke set of six miniature records and a miniature gramophone for Queen Mary’s Doll’s House. The Doll House was to be filled with an extensive collection of fully functioning miniature pieces carefully selected to showcase the […]

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The Grammy’s
  • The first in our #EMIGramophones series is: The Trade Mark Gramophone! #music #vintage #heritage
  • The second Gramophone in our #EMIGramophones series is: The Junior Monarch Gramophone. #music #vintage #heritage
  • The fifth Gramophone in our #EMIGramophones series is: The Pigmy Grand. #music #vintage #heritage
  • Number six in our #EMIGramophones series are the stunning Model 460 and 461 Gramophones. #music #vintage #heritage
  • Number seven in our #EMIGramophones series are the Portable gramophones, models 100 and 101 which were the company's most successful gramophones! Perfect for a picnic on a summer's day. #music #vintage #heritage
  • Number seven in our #EMIGramophones series are the Portable gramophones, models 100 and 101 which were the company's most successful gramophones! Perfect for a picnic on a summer's day. #music #vintage #heritage
  • The season model of 1909 - The Cecil Zonophone gramophone. #music #vintage #heritage
  • One of our most treasured pieces. This Gramophone has been to the Antarctic and back over the last 100 years - It's the Monarch Senior model, taken by Captain Scott and his team on the Tera Nova expedition to the South Pole. #music #vintage #heritage

A huge congratulations to all of this year’s Grammy winners! Did you know that the Grammy Award was originally called a Gramophone Award. It is given by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences to recognise significant achievements in the music industry. The man responsible for inventing the gramophone and flat disc was Emile […]

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