graphophone

Purchased by the Gramophone Company in 1929 for £16,500 and rechristened as EMI Recording Studios, the facility officially opened in November 1931—scant months after Columbia Graphophone had merged with the Gramophone Company and formed the EMI Group.

The newspaper, which gathered recordings with the Columbia Graphophone Company, warned of hospital patients being unable to sleep and the constant sounds of "engines, bells and whistles".

But five- and six-piece dance bands were turning out huge piles of graphophone records, and we tried to buy them all.

She ended with a slow, subdued flourish of treble chords and finally one soft single bass note, like a Graphophone winding down.

He had already bought her a present, a Home Graphophone.