Editing Grammy Awards (section)

==Gramophone trophy==
[[File:Grammy Award 2002.jpg|thumb|200px|left|upright|alt=|[[Ted Jensen]]'s 2002 Grammy Award]]
The gold-plated trophies, each depicting a [[gilded]] [[Phonograph|gramophone]], are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in [[Ridgway, Colorado]]. In 1990, the original Grammy design was reworked, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, making the trophy bigger and grander.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.billingsartworks.com/grammy_making.php |title=Making the Grammy |publisher=Billingsartworks.com |year=2006 |access-date=August 28, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100423143542/http://www.billingsartworks.com/grammy_making.php |archive-date=April 23, 2010 }}</ref> Billings developed Grammium, a [[Zinc#Alloys|zinc alloy]] which they trademarked.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=And the Grammy Comes From...|last=Williams|first=Nick|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=February 13, 2016|pages=56–57|volume=128|issue=4}}</ref> Trophies engraved with each recipient's name are not available until after the award announcements, so "stunt" trophies are re-used each year for the ceremony broadcast.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.billingsartworks.com/about.php |title=About Billings Artworks |publisher=Billingsartworks.com |year=2006 |access-date=August 28, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100423143518/http://www.billingsartworks.com/about.php |archive-date=April 23, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Best|first1=Tamara|title=How the Grammy Awards Are Made: 4 Craftsmen and 'Grammium'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/arts/music/grammy-award-maker-john-billings.html|website=New York Times|date=February 7, 2017|access-date=February 8, 2017|archive-date=October 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009122232/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/arts/music/grammy-award-maker-john-billings.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

By February 2009, some 7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/News/Default.aspx?newsID=2787&newsCategoryID=1 |title=Neil Portnow's 50th Grammy's Telecast Remarks |website=Grammys |date=February 10, 2008 |access-date=August 28, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221031851/http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/News/Default.aspx?newsID=2787&newsCategoryID=1 |archive-date=February 21, 2009 }}</ref>