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

Great is the graphophone, advance agent of civilization!

From Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions by Poe, Clarence Hamilton

Their taste would not have been degraded to the point where it is gratified, as in the graphophone, with a complicated succession of flat and strident sounds unmusical in themselves.

From The Ifs of History by Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar

"Only as I have heard it through the graphophone, in the cabaret below the steamboat landing."

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

A graphophone stood revealed, one of the finest quality.

From Three Thousand Dollars by Green, Anna Katharine