Part 2. Radio performances In June 1920 she appeared on a pioneering radio broadcast from Guglielmo Marconi's factory in Chelmsford, England. People listening on the radio barely heard a few scratches of the trill and two arias she sang. It was a historic moment but there were few radio receivers for people to hear her, so she never made another studio radio broadcast not realising the potential of the new medium. The microphone was not even adapted to recording until 1924 and Melba carefully sang a select repertoire for it. There were other live broadcasts including a performance broadcast by wireless telephone to England and several European countries in July 1920, and her farewell from Covent Garden was widely broadcast. In 1927, Melba and others "took part in the first wireless programme broadcast throughout the British Empire ... by Station 2F.C., Sydney, Monday morning 5th September, 1927." The programme was "relayed by the BBC London 5.45 pm to 7 pm Sunday Evg. Sept 4th". These quotes are from a signed document, the First Empire Broadcast, held by the National Library of Australia. [edit] Recordings Melba's official "farewell" to Covent Garden in 1926 was recorded, as well as broadcast. Her voice still sounds remarkably fresh, and at the end of the evening she makes a tearful speech to the audience. She made numerous gramophone (phonograph) records of her voice in England and America between 1904 (when she was already aged in her 40s) and 1926 for the Gramophone ...
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