Word: phonographically
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...this center of culture, the musically inclined student is soon reduced to his phonograph and the record stores. As a Freshman, he goes to hear Koussevitzky on Mozart, perhaps he is inveigled into a meeting of the Handel and Haydn Society, he listens to a mediocre glee, club, and he goes home unnourished...
...honest appraisal shows clearly that the quality of the British phonograph recording industry is well ahead of ours, and present developments, step by step, are widening their edge. This state of affairs results from a fundamental difference in the American and British approaches towards music. The hucksters have taken over American music and bigger sales and profits and poorer standards are the order of the day. With an infinitely smaller market the British industry remains essentially one which furthers music a san art, with the search for perfection the keynote of their policy...
...Government officials criticized by ordinary individuals, to go from city to city over huge distances without being stopped for passes and answering endless questions. American talk of food and goods shortages struck her as some kind of elaborate joke. She was buying now for Moscow, everything from a radio-phonograph to progressively larger-size clothes for the baby...
...above reflection was occasioned by a recent visit to a certain fairly well known local collector of hot dises. This avid one's rather barren music room is strown with parts of a very uniquely designed phonograph connected to each other several times over by wires which dive and coil menacingly and generally rule most of that part of the room which lies below the waist. These respective parts, each after its own fashion, are perpetually glowing and humming. The flendish ruler of this electrical wilderness likes nothing better than to set a visitor on a chair in the middle...
...bass viol. But the Great Collector usually goes on and on, relentlessly playing momentary snatches of Bobby Hackett's guitar, PeeWee Russell's saxophone, and Tommy Dorsey's trumpet cleverly hiding even the labels from view as he feeds ancient record after ancient record into the mouth of the phonograph...