graphophone
Americannoun
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But five- and six-piece dance bands were turning out huge piles of graphophone records, and we tried to buy them all.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
He could express himself only at the keyboard, and the piano is no graphophone, for which let us all be duly thankful.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard
To think of sending me a graphophone and a hundred records!
From The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
The sergeant-major fastened on to a gramophone; and that caused me for the first time to remember my Columbia graphophone that I had loaned to C Battery before I went home wounded from Zillebeke.
From Pushed and the Return Push by George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
And after that they wound up the graphophone and heard a lovely song, which I’m going to tell to you because it was so pretty.
From Billy Bunny and Daddy Fox by David Cory
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