whats the name of the hmv dog?

Answer 1

Nipper

Nipper the dog was born in Bristol in Gloucester, England in 1884 and was so named because of his tendency to nip at visitors' legs. When his first master Mark Barraud died in Bristol in 1887, Nipper was taken to Liverpool in Lancashire, England by Mark's younger brother Francis, a painter. In Liverpool Nipper discovered the Phonograph, a cylinder recording and playing machine and Francis Barraud 'often noticed how puzzled he was to make out where the voice came from.' Three years after Nipper died Francis committed that memory to canvas.

Answer 2

The story of Nipper began in 1899 when Francis Barraud went into the Gramophone Company's office in Maiden Lane and asked to borrow a horn for a painting he was doing of his fox terrier dog. He confessed that some years before he painted a picture of his dog listening to a Edison phonograph and he called it "His Master's Voice". Since then no one had shown any interest in it so Francis thought if he put a brass horn on it instead the drab black horn from Edison he might sell it. When the brass horn was returned, William Barry Owen offered to buy the picture for the Gramophone Company, as long as Edison used the company's improved horn. Francis snapped up the offer and HMV was born. The dog Nipper had died in 1895 aged eleven, in 1949 the Gramophone Company decided to honour him and erected a plaque above his grave under a mulberry tree in Eden Street, Kingston-on-Thames. Francis Barraud died in 1924 aged sixty-eight making a good living painting copies.

The image was first used on the company's publicity material in 1900, and additional copies were subsequently commissioned from the artist for various corporate purposes. [2]

Later, at the request of the gramophone's inventor Emile Berliner, the American rights to the picture became owned by the Victor Talking Machine Company. Victor used the image more aggressively than its UK partner, and from 1902 on all Victor records had a simplified drawing of the dog and gramophone from Barraud's painting on their label. Magazine advertisements urged record buyers to "Look for the dog".

Answer 3

Nipper

Answer 4

Neville Webster

Answer 5

Nipper

Answer 6

the dog is called Nipper after edisons dog who sat by the gramaphone when he first heard edisons voice coming from it thus HMV his masters voice

Answer 7

Puffle

Answer 8

Nipper...I found out of Wikipedia

Answer 9

He's a dog from the 'top' breed...

''Top dog for music''....literally

Answer 10

Fido?