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
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And after that they wound up the graphophone and heard a lovely song, which I’m going to tell to you because it was so pretty.
From Billy Bunny and Daddy Fox by David Cory
There was always a fair grade of tea, always sake, always a wheezy graphophone.
From Boy Scouts in the Philippines Or, The Key to the Treaty Box by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson
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 Harold Steele MacKaye
A graphophone, with records of Melba, Sembrich, Caruso, and other operatic stars, made the rounds of a menagerie.
From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence
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