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

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)

As I drew near it, I heard the sound of the graphophone.

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

Here we lodged all night, enjoying a graphophone entertainment in the evening.

From A Woman who went to Alaska by Sullivan, May Kellogg