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- DictionaryGram·o·phone rec·ord/ˈɡraməˌfōn rəˈkôrd/
noun
- 1. old-fashioned term for record
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A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), a vinyl record (for later varieties only), or simply a record or vinyl is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near the outside edge and ends near the center of the disc.
A phonograph, later called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910), and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of recorded sound.
Feb 29, 2020 · The gramophone as the name of the most advanced music player, sound recorder and playback device of 1887 was coined and patented by its inventor to refer to the sound device which plays on flat discs on disc record players, running through the groove out to the periphery instead of the conventional one play cylindrical phonographs which was ...
A gramophone record (or just record) is a type of analog storage medium. It stores recorded music (or other sounds). It was popular during most of the 20th century. Gramophone records are played on a phonograph ("record player"). A gramophone record is a flat disk that is usually made of plastic.
Until World War II, people in in Great Britain and other countries continued to use the word gramophone for a disc record or a disc machine. The word phonograph was used for the old cylinder record and machine, by then relegated to a dictation device as it was originally meant to be.
Nov 4, 2019 · The Gramophone and Records . On November 8, 1887, Emile Berliner, a German immigrant working in Washington D.C., patented a successful system for sound recording. Berliner was the first inventor to stop recording on cylinders and start recording on flat disks or records.
digital sound recording. sound recording, transcription of vibrations in air that are perceptible as sound onto a storage medium, such as a phonograph disc. In sound reproduction the process is reversed so that the variations stored on the medium are converted back into sound waves.
