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Originally Posted by 'LIVEWIRE?'
Slightly OT, maybe, but earlier posts referring to Record Players and the like fail to mention that the (once)common English term 'Gramophone' is actually a misnomer. The coorct word should, IMHO, be 'Graphophone' as in the name of the UK Columbia Record Label, which was owned by the 'Columbia Graphophone Company. Like the word 'Phonograph', it of course means 'write-sound', a precise description of what a record player does (more correctly I guess, this should apply to what a record maker does.
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I think the Gramophone Co. Ltd. of Hayes, Middlesex, outsold the Columbia Graphophone, and thereby became generic.
(They went to court to defend their trademark, and lost).