How To Use Gramophone In A Sentence
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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.
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Decca continued to make wind-up gramophones until the late 1950s, long after electric gramophones were established.
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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
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He stood up awkwardly and strolled mysteriously to the corner of the room where a peculiarly large gramophone horn dominated.
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The museum's collection illustrates the history of recorded sound prior to the popular use of the gramophone and radio.
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It was the gramophone, not the phonograph, that brought the music industry into existence.
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I have several hundred of these old LPs, but my gramophone is getting a bit past it.
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Drafted in 1963, it presently remains in law that gramophones, travelling rugs, and typewriters are our most at-risk goods.
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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.
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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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They introduced him to the village; he played his gramophone, performed conjuring tricks, put on puppet shows, and talked about justice for the peasants.
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Visitors who made purchases were entitled to enter the drawing to win bicycles, shoes, coats, musical instruments, gramophones, cosmetics, samovars, and other prizes.
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We could gather around the radiogram, and later the television, or put a record on the gramophone and no one had to spend years practising.
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Bury That bit about Sousa being scared of the gramophone was a great comparison.
Top News
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It was bustling and full of bargains from gramophone players to antique furniture and crockery sets in original boxes.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was playing a piece of piano music on his gramophone and smoking a cigarette.
Seminary Boy
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A chameleon was shifting to match the kaleidoscope of colour given off by the lights of a gramophone record store.
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Newstalgia Weekend Gramophone - Louis Martin Conducts Music Of Ibert - 1955 Lest We All Forget - Public Option And The Promises Of Summer - July 18 Newstalgia Mid-Week Concert - The London Symphony And Maria Joao Pires Live In Paris.
Crooks and Liars
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On a table beneath the open window was a gramophone playing a piece of music.
Seminary Boy
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The room is furnished with expensive period furniture and even an antique gramophone.
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Vinyl recordings and gramophones were sent back from America before they became readily available in Ireland and in this way he acquired a large repertoire of tunes often several in the same week.
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A novelty for the home crowd at reserve matches in 1924-25 was music from gramophone records broadcast through a loudspeaker.
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Gramophone ... has revealed that several recordings attributed to the late, cultishly admired British pianist are identical to discs previously issued on other labels — including, remarkably, Yefim Bronfman and Esa-Pekka Salonen's well-regarded 1990 recording of the Rachmaninov Third Piano Concerto.
And now the news
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At last she wound down like an old-fashioned gramophone and rolled on to her back on the grass feeling exhausted.
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My parents also flinched when I put on my scratchy gramophone records of German symphonies, and prepared for complaints from the neighbours.
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The gramophone had been eclipsed by new technology such as the compact disc.
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The man disappeared among the trees, returning after about 20 minutes with a portable gramophone and records.
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Like a gramophone stuck on a groove, he kept asking me why Wen shouted at him.
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A chameleon was shifting to match the kaleidoscope of colour given off by the lights of a gramophone record store.
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I would venture to add that these classics of the gramophone have come out sounding extremely beautiful with singing top registers and remarkable sound stage for the early 50's.
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‘There was a gramophone playing the cha-cha-cha,’ he recalls, ‘and two of our teachers were there.’
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He was playing a piece of piano music on his gramophone and smoking a cigarette.
Seminary Boy
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It was one of those old-fashioned gramophones that winds up.
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Among my most treasured possessions is a set of classic recordings, each and every one of which was lovingly compiled for me years ago on cassettes from the original gramophone records in the collection of my elder brother Hamish.
Archive 2009-08-01
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But the figures in that room, alone with their wind-up gramophone, are indulging in an appalling tragi-comedy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of recording into and manipulating sounds on computer, the group ran them through vintage amps and old gramophone speakers, thereby giving the recording a natural depth and warmth.
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Often they were accompanied by accounts of his experiences, such as taking tea while Rigoletto played on a gramophone and shells burst outside.
Times, Sunday Times
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PLEASE help me have a No 1 hit gramophone record next week.
The Sun
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On a table beneath the open window was a gramophone playing a piece of music.
Seminary Boy
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Marty: The gramophone is the origin of recording and sharing music.
Chinalyst - China blogs in English
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There was a gramophone at home and recordings of opera.
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On the observation roof of F block a group of music lovers listened to a classical symphony on a wind-up gramophone.
Times, Sunday Times
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For entertainment in the hospital, Reitzel provided a gramophone and a small portable kinescope; prison officials placed a large hall at the secretary's disposal two times a week for performances.
Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
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Niklas headed purposefully for the gramophone in the living room and let the sounds of cheerful Bavarian folk music fill the apartment.
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The high price of long-playing gramophone records, and the huge quantity of them being issued, meant that many enthusiasts could not buy all the records they wanted.
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What is the value of a portable wind-up gramophone I have?
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His first recordings, made a hundred years ago this month, on April 11 th, 1902, would kick-start the birth of the gramophone as a medium for what we now take for granted - the serious recording.
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The processes used for mass duplication of early gramophone records were remarkably similar to those used throughout the era of analogue disc recording.
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Basically hailing from Calicut, their job is to procure old gramophones and, after giving them a shine, sell them for an attractive amount.
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From around 1900 until the 1950s, the needles on pre-electric gramophones required changing after every record, to preserve sound quality.
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A pile of gramophone records cracked loudly under his elbow and a piece of fireplace cut his leg.
Bomber
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Only listened to classical music on the radio or her beloved Chopin on the gramophone.
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And wind-up gramophones were all the general population could afford - the first generation of electric radiograms were as expensive as cars.
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He compared the phenomenon to the continued preference of some people for music from vinyl records heard through a gramophone.
Times, Sunday Times
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His fascination both with music and collecting albums began when he played his grandmother's collection of 78 rmp records on a wind-up gramophone.
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On the observation roof of F block a group of music lovers listened to a classical symphony on a wind-up gramophone.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first gramophone to change records automatically went on sale.
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Maori artefacts, washing machines, gramophones, even chamber pots of every size shape and colour.
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They invested their prized sum in a wind-up gramophone and began music appreciation lessons.
Times, Sunday Times
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The telephone and the gramophone were contemporary.
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They were like a needle stuck in a gramophone record, inexorably repeating embrace after embrace.
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Only days before he had been duetting fabulously as pianist with Joyce DiDonato at the Gramophone Awards in a languorous version of "Over the Rainbow", on balance a piece that does bear frequent repetition though I can see I may regret that remark.
The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida
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It was just about bearable on the gramophone.
ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
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The only medium to listen to the then alternative music was a record player or gramophone.
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Exhibits will include film and audio clips, scripts, designs, posters, diaries, costume, radios and gramophones and 78 rpm records,
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Decided the gramophone was a bit unwieldy and switched to MP3 myself.
Going against my better judgment and being proved right and wrong at the same time
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Before the gramophone and the LP, before there were CDs and MTV, songwriters were forced to travel in order to share in the musical influences and advancements of their peers.
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It's a bit like an old gramophone record.
Times, Sunday Times
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Before the invention of the gramophone and flat-disc records in the late 1890s music and songs were recorded on wax cylinders and played on machines called phonographs, invented by Thomas Edison.
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They may rely on as simple an explanation as that of a print of a coin in wax, or they may, like Wittgenstein, use examples such as the structural analogy between music and the groove in a gramophone record.
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She would allow him to use her piano to play the music he had heard on his parents' gramophone records.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was just about bearable on the gramophone.
ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
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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.
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Then, after dinner, when the lamps were lit, and Mrs. Ukridge petted Edwin and sewed, and Ukridge smoked cigars and incited the gramophone to murder "Mumbling Mose," I would steal away to my bedroom and write -- and write -- and _write_ -- and go on writing till my fingers were numb and my eyes refused to do their duty.
Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm
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Nellie danced the foxtrot listening to the gramophone.
Imperfect Union
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The gramophone is a machine for recording such tunes as certain shops and other organisations choose to sell.
Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
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Larger versions, like the barrel organs and orchestrions, filled the same role as the gramophone, which superseded them, and has since been supplanted in its turn by the CD player.
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It was bustling and full of bargains from gramophone players to antique furniture and crockery sets in original boxes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sergeant-major fastened on to a gramophone; and that caused me for the first time to remember my Columbia graphophone that I had loaned to C
Pushed and the Return Push
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Speeches were made, toasts were drunk, the supple boards of the table creaked with good things, cook and messman vied with each other in lavish hospitality, the Hut was ornate with flags, every man was spruce in his snowiest cardigan and neck-cloth, the gramophone sang of music-hall days, the wind roared its appreciation through the stove-pipe, and rollicking merriment was supreme.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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Gramophone companies had made it possible to record their work for posterity.
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Sought after not only by collectors of early music machines, gramophones like this sell well to interior decorators and furnishers looking for a centrepiece for a period interior.
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The gramophone had been eclipsed by new technology such as the compact disc.
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They were like a needle stuck in a gramophone record, inexorably repeating embrace after embrace.
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We all went and gathered round the gramophone, and when we were settled the record was put on.
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I used some of the money to buy a wind-up gramophone.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were imported suits, obscure gramophone records, antiquarian books, fancy horse-wear, dinosaur eggs, buttered croissants, white chocolate and computer games.
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Then a gramophone is a necessity, and all kinds of records will be necessary -- Beethoven, Stravinsky, Rimski-Korsikoff, Harry Lauder, Fox
A Dominie in Doubt
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The flowers on the table are in a German shell for vase, and the gramophone was another village "find.
The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914
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The telephone and the gramophone were contemporary.
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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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Mr Holt said: ‘We had one of those old wind-up gramophones which Anne and I used to dance around.’
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A wind-up gramophone wafted out Chopin.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was bustling and full of bargains from gramophone players to antique furniture and crockery sets in original boxes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Beppe violin intermede played on the gramophone has to be the dullest scene ever.
L'Amico Fritz
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Its gambling dens ariot, its gramophones all ablare;
The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
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At first I gave it some rudimentary household chores, such as changing gramophone needles and darning stockings.
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We used to listen to Christmas records on the gramophone every Christmas, pops, clicks, fuzz and all.
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The song "It" that was recently posted on said the gramophone is another highlight, with a wonderful accordian part.
Music (For Robots): October 2005 Archives
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He does miss music, but there are gramophones, and there are inventions like the radiophone that hold some promise of bringing distant concerts to listeners.
Red dust
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After dinner the Colonel gave all the officers tasks, such as playing bridge, winding up the gramophone or reading suitable books.
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The gramophone has been displaced by tape recorder.
