gramophone

English - Turkish

Definition of gramophone in English Turkish dictionary

gramafon

{i} gramofon

Tom'un bir gramofonu var. - Tom has a gramophone.

(isim) gramofon

i., İng. pikap; gramofon, fonograf

Related Terms

gramophone record

taşplâk

English - English

Definition of gramophone in English English dictionary

A brand of phonograph that introduced disk records

A historic wind-up record player that acoustically reproduces sound from a disk rather than a cylinder record

A gramophone is an old-fashioned type of record player. a wind-up gramophone with a big horn. gramophone records

A "talking machine" patented in 1887 by Emile Berliner that utilized a disk instead of a cylinder

The sound recording and playback device invented by Emile Berliner It consisted of a turntable for a disc record, a sound box mounted on a pivot (allowing the record groove to guide the stylus), and a conical sounding-horn The first gramophones were hand-driven, but the machinist, Eldridge Johnson (later the founder of the Victor Talking Machine Co ), devised a practical spring-motor for the machine in 1896 Note: although the distinction between the gramophone and phonograph (and the recordings played on them) continued for many years, by the time of the demise of the Edison cylinder in 1929, the term phonograph was regularly used to refer to disc-playing machines See also graphophone, lateral recording and phonograph

an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically

The original name given to the disc record player by Berliner, now used in Europe to refer to any disc record player

Reproduction is accomplished by means of a system attached to an elastic diaphragm

An instrument for recording, preserving, and reproducing sounds, the record being a tracing of a phonautograph etched in some solid material

{i} phonograph, record player

Related Terms

gramophone record

LP, album, plastic disc that is pre-recorded with sound and played back using a phonograph player

gramophones

plural of gramophone

Hyphenation

Gra·mo·phone

Synonyms

phonograph

Etymology

[ 'gra-m&-"fOn ] (noun.) 1887. From Greek γράμμα gramma "letter" and φωνή foni "sound", coined by Emile Berliner after the invention of the first phonograph.