victrola

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A victrola was playing somewhere, and from the bedroom came voices in a sort of off-key barbershop quartet.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 3, 2016

She's looking for an old victrola she can use to accessorize her Brooklyn apartment.

From Time • Feb. 26, 2010

The tunes are marvelous but the way Army bands have played them in the past has made them sound like an old-fashioned victrola which needed to be wound up.

From Time Magazine Archive

From three-year-olds he got reactions such as "I like my horsy record �I put it on the victrola . . . take my bicycle and ride through the dining room, galloping, galloping ..."

From Time Magazine Archive

And he bought a Victor victrola, a tall Gothic instrument, and he went regularly to see what new records had come in.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck