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Gianni Bettini (1860, Novara – 27 February 1938, San Remo) was a gentleman inventor and a pioneer audiophile who invented several phonograph improvements.^[1] He is best known for having made the first (and in some cases only) recordings of the voices of several very famous singers and other celebrities of the 1890s.^[2] Few of these recordings have survived.

Bettini in 1898, from The Phonoscope magazine

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