graphophone
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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
There was an excellent musical library at Storm, and the best records to be had for the graphophone were sent to her regularly.
From Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
Born at Edinburgh, Scotland, March 3, 1847; came to Canada, 1870, and to Boston, 1871; invented telephone, 1876; graphophone, 1883.
From American Men of Mind by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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
"Only as I have heard it through the graphophone, in the cabaret below the steamboat landing."
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
