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培优测评练(一)
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People all over the world love listening to music and most have their favourite songs which they listen to again and again.But how did it all start? When could people first choose the music they wanted to listen to?
The 1900s:The player pianos
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries,pianos became very popular and rich families bought “player pianos”.A player piano played music that was programmed on paper rolls with holes in them and you could also play it like a “normal” piano.In the mid 1920s player pianos began to disappear mainly because the radio got more popular.
The 1910s:The first phonographs(留声机)
As early as 1877,there were phonographs to play music on and by the 1910s,many families had one.The music was on “records” made of aluminum foil(铝箔).People could listen to them only a few times before the foil broke.Later the music was on wax cylinders(蜡筒).These could hold longer recordings (two to four minutes),and people could pla