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

Inventor Louis Glass and engineer William S. Arnold created the original coin-in-the-slot phonograph in 1889: It played one song on a metal disk or cylinder.

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

He thought he was in the Paris Grill listening to the automatic phonograph playing; but that was not satisfying.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

In the home, a rich family might have one of the new phonographs that played music stored on wax cylinders, but most families were still making their own music, using sheet music or songbooks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026

But he was known to bite into phonographs and pianos to help him experience music as his hearing faded.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2022

In experiments with phonographs, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy prefigured musique concrète and the work of John Cage.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2019

After all, even Sousa, who warned that phonographs would harm babies, eventually allowed his music to be recorded.

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