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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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(His Master's Voice) The best-known name to have survived from the early days of the British recording industry. The Gramophone Company was founded in 1898, initially to import the newly invented gramophones and gramophone records from Germany. By the end of that year it was making its own recordings in London, and it soon found an appropriate image in a painting entitled 'His Master's Voice' by Francis Barraud. The company bought the picture, asked Barraud to repaint the gramophone so that the terrier was listening to one of its own models, and used the image thereafter as a label. In 1931 the Gramophone Company merged with others to form *EMI.
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