gramophone
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In 1887 German-American inventor Emile Berliner invented the flat shellac disk, quickly saw its advantage for mass production, and patented a device to play them, the gramophone, that same year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Bad Bunny, who won the Album of the Year prize a week ago, presented the child -- perhaps a younger version of himself -- with a golden gramophone.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
He often cited his first musical memory as "winding up a gramophone playing opera records, and trying to sing along to it".
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2025
Some elements of the stage – like the gramophone in the middle – will remain the same.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
“The recordings of my brother. The gramophone company in Paris wasn’t interested anymore, but every night I played the ten recordings we’d made, until most of them were worn out. And his song.”
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
