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phonograph

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Also known as turntable, record player, gramophone

thumb|A typical modern component turntable, showing the curved tonearm with a headshell at the end, under which lies the magnetic cartridge and its attached stylus touching down on the grooves of a black record placed on the turntable's platter

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A phonograph is a device that plays recorded sound by using a needle (stylus) to read grooves in a vinyl record as it spins on a turntable. It matters because it was a foundational technology for music and audio entertainment, allowing people to listen to recorded sound in their homes.

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Contents
  • Terminology
  • United States
  • Australia
  • Early history
  • Phonautograph
  • Paleophone
  • The early phonographs
  • Early machines
  • Introduction of the disc record
  • Oldest surviving recordings
  • Improvements at the Volta Laboratory
  • Volta's early challenge
  • Volta Graphophone
  • Graphophone commercialization
  • Disc vs. cylinder as a recording medium
  • Dominance of the disc record
  • First all-transistor phonograph
  • Turntable designs
  • Arm systems
  • Cue lever
  • Linear tracking
  • Optical readout
  • Stylus
  • Equalization
  • Contemporary use and models
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|A typical modern component turntable, showing the curved tonearm with a headshell at the end, under which lies the magnetic cartridge and its attached stylus touching down on the grooves of a black record placed on the turntable's platter

A phonograph, later called a gramophone, and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “phonograph” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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