Nortorf Museum
The Nortorf Museum was established in the summer of 2002 in Nortorf opens and displays a collection about the history of the record and the history of the production of records. Nortorf, as the long-standing production site of the Teldec company , is still today beyond Schleswig-Holstein as the city of records . In 1877 the American Thomas Alva Edison succeeded in recording and playing back notes for the first time using a phonograph . Born in Hanover, Emil Berliner developed the gramophone and then the record.
Record production in Nortorf
In 1948 the production of records on a converted leather press began in Nortorf in a converted leather factory after Telefunken Schallplatten GmbH had moved from Berlin to Nortorf. In the first year, 24,278 records were produced. In 1949 seven mechanical toggle presses were installed and annual production increased to 400,000 records. In June 1950 the 1,000,000th record was produced in Nortorf and the TELDEC Schallplatten-Gesellschaft GmbH was founded in Hamburg. From 1951 the shellac mass required for pressing was produced in the Nortorfer shellac mass factory, which in 1952 also produced the first so-called long game granules. The company premises were expanded in 1952 with the acquisition of the Ewald Köster leather factory. A shellac record was last pressed in 1959. By 1987, a total of 850,000,000 shellac and vinyl records had left the Teldec record factory.
Collections
The exhibition shows parts of record presses, films for record and music cassette production as well as several thousand sound carriers from shellac records to CDs, but also a detour to Tefifon , tape and music cassette . There is also an old pharmacy from around 1910 on the upper floor of the museum building, as well as numerous other exhibits on the history of Nortorf. Special exhibits include the jukebox from the legendary Hamburg neighborhood pub Zum Silbersack and a golden Elvis record from 1958 with an engraving error : Presly instead of Presley.
Showroom with music boxes
Music box from the Hamburg pub Zum Silbersack
Shellac information board
Music system
Tefifon
Organizational matters
The museum is run by a sponsoring association and is open on Sunday afternoons. Admission is free.
Web links
Coordinates: 54 ° 10 ′ 13.8 ″ N , 9 ° 51 ′ 20.2 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ↑ City history brought to life
- ^ End of a long music tradition ( Memento from July 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Presly instead of Presley: Engraving error from 1959 ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
