The country's first Arphology Museum opened today in Tainan.

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[Reporter Wang Shuxiu/Tainan Report] The nation’s first gramophone museum opened in Tainan today (3rd). The man behind the 5-year-old Wending Music Museum is none other than Xu Wending, who has been engaged in the electronic record player industry all his life. He was born in 1970 In the 1990s, the national record player "Dalin" was all the rage, and the rush to buy it was as good as the current iPhone craze. The collection of hundreds of pieces in the museum not only led the audience into the time tunnel of gramophone recording, but also made the "Dalin" brand disappear for nearly 40 years. "Reappear in front of your eyes.

The first permanent exhibition of the Wending Liusheng Museum, "A Walk in Music: A Glimpse of a Hundred Years of Time", takes the audience into the time tunnel of phonograms.

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The Wending Music Museum is located in the Chixian Pengpai business district in the Central and Western District, which is full of historic sites. The first permanent exhibition "Walking in Music: A Glimpse of a Hundred Years of Time" will be launched from now on. It plans to have 4 major themed exhibition areas: music box, gramophone, and electronic record player , modern audio, revealing the evolution of phonograph culture over the past 200 years, and leading the audience into the time tunnel of phonograph.

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In the 1970s, the popular national turntable "Dalin" was launched.

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Xu Wending, the founder of the Gramophone Museum, came to Taiwan from Penghu to enter the electrical appliance industry when he was 14 years old. He cooperated with his friends to establish Zhihong Electric (renamed as Yahong Electric Technology Co., Ltd. in 1985). He has been engaged in the electronic record player industry all his life and launched The popular national turntable "Dalin" has been deeply involved in the development and innovation of electronic turntables.

There is a cultural and creative souvenir area and a coffee shop in Tainan Arphology Museum.

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Since the end of 2017, Xu Wending has established the "Wentiment Records Museum" with the theme of the foundation of his life's career - the vinyl record player, and chose to establish the museum in Fucheng, an ancient capital full of talents.

During the period, I went to the phonograph museums in Europe, Japan and other places to learn about music boxes, phonographs and record players.

The first permanent exhibition of this opening exhibits different phonograph technology and phonograph relics over the past 200 years, focusing on the collection of hardware equipment. Through the sharing of historical culture and popular science knowledge, in the modern society where streaming music is a fever, it is really a An inspiring and moving beauty.

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