Record holders of old

Usage examples of gramophones.

All he asks is that men shall live more simply, nearer to the earth, with more sense of the magic of things like vegetation, fire, water, sex, blood, than they can in a world of celluloid and concrete where the gramophones never stop playing.

It looked innocuous enough, a slim up-ended trunk, nothing like as pretty as the gramophones, but Pierre had a devious habit of brushing past it and switching it on without anybody noticing so it recorded three minutes of inane conversation.

Then he'd wait half an hour and play it back on one of the gramophones, much to Bry's amusement, since it was usually Spencer who got caught out saying the stupidest things.

The three gramophones greeted him like wide-mouthed dogs rising to welcome an old friend.

The three big gramophones were on separate tables carefully positioned around the bare wooden floor, along with the free-standing pier machine.

More like Bank Holiday at Margate, with gramophones and bathing-dresses and everybody barging into everybody else.

And while England in the moment of disaster proved to be short of every war material except ships, it is not recorded that there was any shortage of motor cars, fur coats, gramophones, lipstick, chocolates or silk stockings.

They handled a line of cheap gramophones, and did a little with musical boxes.

It presumes that the mechanical gramophones described above are being produced, and that a market for the classic 10" and 12" 78 rpm disc recordings exists.