graphophone
Example Sentences
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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
One day a graphophone agent called at the house and the family became much interested in one of his musical machines.
From Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade by Ernest A. (Ernest Albert) Bell
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 Joseph Edgar Chamberlin
Here we lodged all night, enjoying a graphophone entertainment in the evening.
From A Woman who went to Alaska by May Kellogg Sullivan
At a signal someone started the graphophone, and to the sweet strains of a march the bride appeared, leaning upon the arm of her uncle.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
