KEELA SMITH, the general manager at Bonsai Brewing, holds a pint in front of the turntables
on a recent Vinyl Night at the Whitefish brewery. (Eric Waier photos/This Week in the Flathead)
February 23, 2017
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Take it from Bonsai: Vinyl isn't dead ... yet
The term “spinning wax” goes all the way back to the invention of recorded audio in the 1880s and Thomas Edison’s phonograph with its wax cylinders as a recording medium. German inventor Emile Berliner would kill the phonograph with his gramophone, which used a flat disc instead of a cylinder, and in 1940 vinyl would become the dominant format.