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
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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
While thinking of this, I became aware of the noise of a cheap graphophone carrying a melody with its raucous voice; the sounds came from a cabaret just below the steamboat landing-place.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
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
One day a graphophone agent came to the house and the family became interested in one of his musical machines.
From Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls by Jean Turner-Zimmermann
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