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Compton Mackenzie & "Gramophone" Magazine
By Jeffrey Borinsky

BBC Radio 3 carried an item about Compton Mackenzie today.  As well as
being a successful author, he founded "Gramophone" magazine in 1923,
which today celebrates its 75th anniversary.

The commentator, Sean Rafferty, said that Mackenzie was a great music
lover, and so in 1923 had a player piano shipped out to his home in the
Channel Islands.  It appears he was most unhappy with the instrument
and so acquired a gramophone instead.  The rest is history.

Jeffrey Borinsky

(Message sent Mon 20 Apr 1998, 17:30:13 GMT, from time zone GMT+0100.)

Key Words in Subject: Compton, Gramophone, Mackenzie, Magazine

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