victrola

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A victrola was playing somewhere, and from the bedroom came voices in a sort of off-key barbershop quartet.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 3, 2016

She's looking for an old victrola she can use to accessorize her Brooklyn apartment.

From Time • Feb. 26, 2010

But victrola records were allowed to popularize the "Dance of the Seven Veils"� and in Europe the opera at once took front rank.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tunes are marvelous but the way Army bands have played them in the past has made them sound like an old-fashioned victrola which needed to be wound up.

From Time Magazine Archive

That night, Dad moved the boys’ bathroom victrola into his bedroom, and we heard him playing French records, far into the night.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey