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The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common devices for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s. Usage of these terms is somewhat different in British English and American English; see usage note below. In more modern usage, this device is often called the turntable or record player. In the late 19th and early 20th century, the alternative term talking machine was sometimes used. The phonograph was the first device for recording and replaying sound.
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THIS is the wonder of the phonograph: it is a machine which makes pictures of sounds, and then, at will, changes these pictures back into sounds again. A picture of a matchless solo by Melba is made in Paris on a little wax cylinder; the cylinder is sent through the mails to New York like any other picture, here to be transformed again into the voice of Melba, repeating all the sweetness and richness of the original tones. The voice of Nicolini, preserved in pictures, still sings, although the singer himself is dead. And this is something hard to realize, even at this day when the phonograph has become almost as familiar as the sewing-machine.
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The market is currently seeing a resurgence in record stores, and even some stores that deal exclusively in phonograph records. Phonograph records have experienced such a resurgence in popularity that top audio machine makers, such as Bang and Olufsen, are making record players that run to the tens of thousands of dollars. You can ... attach five-foot high speakers to your phonograph player from makers such as B&W that will dramatically enhance the sound. The depth of your vinyl addiction is entirely up to you!
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