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phonograph

[foh-nuh-graf, -grahf] / ˈfoʊ nəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /
NOUN
turntable
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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

Meanwhile, first the phonograph and then the radio revolutionized home entertainment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 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

“My mother played opera on the phonograph for me,” Vivian replied.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2022

With landlines largely gone the way of phonographs, this one is a delightfully analog fright.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2020

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




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