phonograph
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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
The player piano and the phonograph not only introduced recorded music to a mass audience, they also prepared the way for machines to become integrated into musical creation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 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
What about the long-standing myth that its round shape was designed to look like a stack of records with a rooftop antenna resembling a phonograph needle?
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2023
She’d slip on a pair of dancing shoes, put a stack of records on the phonograph, and crank the volume way up.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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