Word: phonograph
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...field of art experience, vaster than any so far known (and standing in the same relation to the art museums as does . . . hearing a phonograph record to a concert audition), is now, thanks to reproduction, being opened up. And this new domain . . . is for the first time the common heritage of all mankind...
Liquidation. In Douglas, Ariz., while his parents were away on vacation, Glenn Prescott, 35, sold two family blankets for $22, the radio-phonograph for $20, his father's bar bells for $13, allegedly cashed his father's $15 pension and $85 Social Security checks, was arrested while trying to sell the family washing machine...
...PRICE JUMP of 10% to 20% will come before the end of the year because of rising costs, predicts Emerson Radio & Phonograph President Benjamin Abrams. Emerson will raise 1955 model prices within 60 days...
...Beethoven fan once said that the only way to get the real "feel" of his master's voice was to turn the phonograph up to maximum volume, lie on the floor, fasten one end of a rubber hose over the bellowing speaker, the other into one's ear. A simpler way of being pounded to jelly is to read a novel by France's Louis-Ferdinand Cèline. No rubber hose can convey the feel of Cèline, nor can his own favorite exclamations, such as "Bam!", "Bang!", "Zoom!", "Zimm!", "Rrpp!", "Rrooo!", "Rraap!", "Rrango!", "Whah...
...DynaTone, from the Ansley Radio Corporation in Trenton, New Jersey. Colley describes this strange instrument as having strings like a regular piano whose vibrations were reproduced by vacuum tubes and played through an amplifier instead of sounding directly. The same amplifier could also be used for a radio and phonograph which were set into one side of the piano. With this arrangement the piano could be played with either the radio or phonograph through a series of microphones in the piano. Colley also seems to remember a cabinet for a TV set, although Schine did not have one since there...