Decca may refer to:
Music
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Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis (Decca), Edward Lewis after his acquisition of a gramophone manufacturer, The Decca Gramophone Company. It set up an American subsidiary under the Decca name, which bec ...
or Decca Music Group, record label
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Decca Gold
Decca Gold is a United States–based record label focusing on classical repertoire. It falls under the umbrella of Verve Label Group, owned by Universal Music Group. The label has a new roster of classical artists and partnerships, and was inspir ...
, classical music record label owned by Universal Music Group
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Decca Broadway
Decca Broadway is an American record label specializing in musical theater recordings founded in 1999 by Decca Records and is a unit of Universal Music Group.
Decca Broadway issued both new original cast albums as well as reissues of classic music ...
, musical theater record label
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Decca Studios
Decca Studios was a recording facility at 165 Broadhurst Gardens, West Hampstead, North London, England, controlled by Decca Records from 1937 to 1980.
History
The building that housed Decca Studios at 165 Broadhurst Gardens in London was bu ...
, recording facility in West Hampstead, England
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London Decca
This is a list of phonograph manufacturers. The phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone, record player or turntable, is a device introduced in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound. Phonographs can also spec ...
, maker of turntable tonearms and cartridges
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Decca tree
The Decca Tree is a spaced microphone array most commonly used for orchestral recording. It was originally developed as a type of stereo A–B recording method adding a center fill. The technique was developed in the early 1950s and first commerc ...
, microphone recording system
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The Deccas
The Deccas are a guitar based band formed in 2007 in the Medway Delta, currently signed to indie music label 208 Records.
The Deccas have played many gigs in and around Medway and London and have been described as short, sharp songsmiths with ...
, guitar-based band from Medway, England
People
Given name
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Decca Aitkenhead
Jessica "Decca" Aitkenhead (born 1971) is an English journalist, writer and broadcaster.
Early life and education
Aitkenhead's family lived in Wiltshire when she was born; she has three older brothers. Her father was a teacher in Bristol befor ...
, English journalist, writer and broadcaster.
Surname
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Grace Decca
Grace Decca (born Ndom'a Deccah Grace on 23 September 1966) is a Cameroonian singer and producer from Douala, the country's economic capital. She is the younger sister of Ben Decca, a well-known Makossa singer, and she worked alongside him and ...
(born 1966), Cameroonian singer and producer
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Marie Decca
Marie Decca was the stage name of Mary Smith ( Johnston; after first marriage, Chrisman; after second marriage, Smith; 1859-unknown), an American lyric soprano operatic singer. She became known as the "Jenny Lind of America". Loomis (1898) descri ...
(1859-?), American opera singer
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Mpundi Decca Mpudi Decca was a Congo music recording artist and guitarist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He was once a member of the Congo music band TPOK Jazz, led by François Luambo Makiadi, which dominated the Congolese music scene from t ...
, Congolese guitarist
Other
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Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford'', 2006 book by Jessica Mitford
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Decca Navigator System
The Decca Navigator System was a hyperbolic navigation, hyperbolic radio navigation system that allowed ships and aircraft to determine their position by using radio signals from a dedicated system of static radio transmitters. The system use ...
, defunct marine and aeronautical navigation system
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Decca Radar, later Racal-Decca Marine, a defunct marine electronics manufacturer
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Decca Sports Ground
Decca Sports Ground is a cricket ground in Tolworth, London (formerly Surrey). The first recorded professional match on the ground was in 1973, when Surrey played Northamptonshire in a List-A match in the 1973 John Player League as Surrey u ...
, cricket ground in London, England
* Decca, old spelling of
Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; , ), List of renamed places in Bangladesh, formerly known as Dacca, is the capital city, capital and list of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the list of largest cities, largest and list o ...
, capital of Bangladesh
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Ladda decca
''Ladda decca'' is a species of butterfly
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, ...
'', species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae
See also
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Deca (disambiguation)
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Deccan (disambiguation)
Deccan refers to the Deccan Plateau, a peninsular plateau in southern India, and southern India in general.
Deccan may also refer to:
Places
* Deccan Gymkhana, a sports neighborhood in Pune, India
* East Deccan dry evergreen forests, forests in ...
, terms related to the Deccan Plateau in southern India
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