phonograph

Example Sentences

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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

The phonograph and the player piano together brought technological musical reproduction into the home in the early 1900s.

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“My mother played opera on the phonograph for me,” Vivian replied.

From Literature

It was also one of the first songs ever recorded, and the tune with which Thomas Edison’s phonograph was introduced to the London press on Aug. 14, 1888.

From The Wall Street Journal

A few years ago, Mr. Edison invented an amazing machine called a phonograph.

From Literature