graphophone

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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

Their taste would not have been degraded to the point where it is gratified, as in the graphophone, with a complicated succession of flat and strident sounds unmusical in themselves.

From The Ifs of History by Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar

"I've got a kodak an' a graphophone an' a lot o' Milliken's cough syrup with the recipe——" "Why there!" cried Phœbe, exultantly.

From The Panchronicon by MacKaye, Harold Steele

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

Cheer up, ladies," smiled Bill, "the graphophone is a very good one, and in the office is a whole box of records of my own selection.

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