Portable styles are often found sold in their original wooden cases, usually made of oak or mahogany. Gramophones from the 1930s were wind-up styles by brands of the day such as HMV and Columbia, which would play 78-inch records. A gramophone uses a needle on its arm to read the sound from the grooves of a disc and play it through a speaker.Ĭollectors often buy phonographs and gramophones to restore to full working condition, and also to use for listening to a collection of old discs.Ĭhoose your ideal gramophone or phonograph by picking your decade such as the 1930s where they started to become popular, to the present day. Inventor Emile Berliner improved on the phonograph in 1887 by developing the gramophone, which used a flat disc instead. The phonograph was the first form of record player and used a cylinder for recording and reproducing sound. Evoking memories of a bygone era, collectable phonographs and gramophones are popular among those yearning for the sound of years gone by and fascinated by the history of devices.
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