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gramophone

[ UK /ɡɹˈæməfˌə‍ʊn/ ]
NOUN
  1. an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically

How To Use gramophone In A Sentence

  • In these early days, the gramophone was considered to be little more than a toy, and the ‘great artists’ of the time did not want to condescend to its perceived level to make recordings.
  • Decca continued to make wind-up gramophones until the late 1950s, long after electric gramophones were established.
  • After supper she wound up the gramophone to play the `Kreutzer" Sonata, and he told her about the story by Tolstoy, read on the troopship. THE OPEN DOOR
  • He stood up awkwardly and strolled mysteriously to the corner of the room where a peculiarly large gramophone horn dominated.
  • The museum's collection illustrates the history of recorded sound prior to the popular use of the gramophone and radio.
  • It was the gramophone, not the phonograph, that brought the music industry into existence.
  • I have several hundred of these old LPs, but my gramophone is getting a bit past it.
  • Drafted in 1963, it presently remains in law that gramophones, travelling rugs, and typewriters are our most at-risk goods.
  • Other wind-up gramophones from the period have brass finished horns which are equally desirable; however, it is important that the machines are in good working order and in as original condition as possible.
  • He gave me a long lecture about the absurdity of somebody claiming an interest in serious music who didn't own a stereophonic gramophone.
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