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

He could express himself only at the keyboard, and the piano is no graphophone, for which let us all be duly thankful.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Hubbard, Elbert

Then he burst out suddenly: "Ye know the graphophone an' the kodak and the biograph an' all them things what ye can see down to Keene?"

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele

At a signal someone started the graphophone, and to the sweet strains of a march the bride appeared, leaning upon the arm of her uncle.

From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

One day a graphophone agent came to the house and the family became interested in one of his musical machines.

From Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls by Turner-Zimmermann, Jean