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Early record player
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gramophone
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gramophone might refer to: A phonograph , the first device for recording and replaying sound. The two names were originally those used by rival manufacturers. Gramophone record , a disc shaped analogue sound recording medium Gramophone (magazine) , a British ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically [syn: acoustic gramophone ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1887, trademark by German-born U.S. inventor Emil Berliner (1851-1929), an inversion of phonogram (1884) "the tracing made by a phonograph needle," coined from Greek phone "voice, sound" (see fame (n.)) + gramma "something written" (see grammar ).\n \nBerliner's ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context British dated English) A historic wind-up record player that acoustically reproduces sound from a disk rather than a cylinder record.
Usage examples of gramophone.
Highland flings and Irish step-dances on a raised wooden platform like a boxing ring, the music provided by a wind-up gramophone.
They saw a gramophone, a stack of records and a low bed covered with a batik cloth.
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.
They had celebrated in this evening’s brief dance in the English patient’s room their own simple adventures—Hana her sleep, Caravaggio his “finding” of the gramophone, and Kip a difficult defusing, though he had almost forgotten such a moment already.
She called Room Service for a large dry Martini and when it came she sat and smoked and played the gramophone and waited for 7.
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.
Passing beneath the archway, he saw the open fireplace, set with bright Italian tiles, the upright piano, the old-fashioned gramophone.
Andy knew it was time to pull the string that was tied to the gramophone!