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

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

Then came the telephone, phonograph, graphophone and gramophone.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry

She immediately opened the door and led him out into the hall, where Farwell and the two girls were amusing themselves with the graphophone.

From Kildares of Storm by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein

There was always a fair grade of tea, always sake, always a wheezy graphophone.

From Boy Scouts in the Philippines Or, The Key to the Treaty Box by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)