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
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
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
I'll invent the graphophone, the kodak, the vitascope, an' Milliken's cough syrup an' a lot of other big modern inventions.
From The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye
Their mother had recently taken both girls to a near-by city for their first taste of grand opera, completing the effect by the purchase of a graphophone and opera records.
From Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
