phonograph
Example Sentences
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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
The front door is thrown open and I can already hear the sound of the phonograph, spilling George M. Cohan through the rooms.
From Literature
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.
The phonograph and the player piano together brought technological musical reproduction into the home in the early 1900s.
“My mother played opera on the phonograph for me,” Vivian replied.
From Literature
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