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Gianni Bettini (1860–1938) was an early audiophile
Audiophile

An audiophile, from Latin audio "I hear" and Greek language philos "loving," is a person, who typically listens to music on high-end audio electronics....
. He made a number of high-end phonograph
Phonograph

The record player, phonograph or gramophone was the most common device for playing Sound recording and reproduction sound from the 1870s through the 1980s....
s that are highly sought after today. He invented a playback device which improves the sound quality of recordings; The Micro-reproducer. There were many models and refinements but it all circulated around the isolation of the stylus, a multi legged unit he called a "spider." most of his inventions were marketed toward what would later be considered audiopiles.






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Gianni Bettini (1860–1938) was an early audiophile
Audiophile

An audiophile, from Latin audio "I hear" and Greek language philos "loving," is a person, who typically listens to music on high-end audio electronics....
. He made a number of high-end phonograph
Phonograph

The record player, phonograph or gramophone was the most common device for playing Sound recording and reproduction sound from the 1870s through the 1980s....
s that are highly sought after today. He invented a playback device which improves the sound quality of recordings; The Micro-reproducer. There were many models and refinements but it all circulated around the isolation of the stylus, a multi legged unit he called a "spider." most of his inventions were marketed toward what would later be considered audiopiles. One of his later inventions was a Universal Speed indicator. A device that aided the fine adjustment of a phonography motor.

Bettini was born in Novara
Novara

Novara is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With c. 102,862 inhabitants, it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin and it is the second urban area of the Region Piedmont with 190,000 inhabitants....
. In the 1890s he was a New York socialite, living in the swanky central park south neighborhood, what is now in the center of Midtown on the edge of the Theater district. It was there that he operated his New York phonograph laboratory. He made of extraordinary recordings of an elderly Pope Leo XIII
Pope Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII , born Count Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigning from 1878 to 1903, succeeding Pope Pius IX....
 in 1903, Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
 and President Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving one term from 1889 to 1893. Harrison was born in North Bend, Ohio, and at age 21 moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he became a prominent state politician....
. Bettini cylinders are among the rarest in existence. His catalog of opera recordings was 12 pages long, and the cylinders cost $6 when Edison cylinders cost under a dollar. He was selling to a specific clientele.

Before World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 he brought many of his rare recordings to France. During the war most of them were destroyed, leading to their rarity. Later in his career he went into the motion picture business, to little effect, and he died in 1938 in San Remo
San Remo

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, Italy.