phonograph

An animated trailer appears to draw on the story of Korean students whose singing of the song US anthropologist Alice Fletcher recorded on a cylinder phonograph in Washington in 1896.

From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026

The player piano and the phonograph not only introduced recorded music to a mass audience, they also prepared the way for machines to become integrated into musical creation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

These funds were used to purchase local books, periodicals, phonograph records, and "other media" in multiple Indian languages, enriching collections at over two dozen universities.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2024

Ms. Stoneman made her mark in 1957 with her driving instrumental version of “Lonesome Road Blues,” which made her the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo on a phonograph record.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

“Put down that broom and get on that phonograph before 1 call up the precinct,” Lana hollered at him.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

That same year, Jones sought a preliminary injunction from a New York federal court to prevent 20th Century Fox and another record company from selling phonographs of the “I Have a Dream” speech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

There were newfangled inventions: player pianos, phonographs and nickelodeons.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

Pressing his teeth into the wood of phonographs and pianos helped Edison experience the vibrations in his skull.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2022

Philadelphia banned phonographs from a city park, the New York Medical Journal reported in 1890, because they might “disseminate disease” in the form of injuries to the ear.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2018

Here everything was colors to me: the red clang of the streetcars, blue music from phonographs, silver laughter of people.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli