I think by that time the committee will realize that my suggestion of a close cooperation between the National Phonograph Works, the Victor Talking Machine Company, and the Musical Publishers' Association is well founded.
Mr. Chairman, as the representative of the Columbia Phonograph Company, I should like to know whether it is the purpose of this committee to sit to-morrow.
But they get much more out of the human voice, and I will tell you why: The phonograph companies know that.
Why is not the representative of the Edison Company--the National Phonograph Works--here opposing this bill?
When these perforated-roll companies and these phonograph companies take my property and put it on their records they take something that I am interested in and give me no interest in it.
I think when the old copyright law was made, the various perforated rolls and phonograph records were not known, and there was no provision made to protect us in that direction.
But he can not, at the same time, under the payment for the privilege of a one-night stand, sing it into a phonograph and give it to a million people all over the country.
Mr. Chairman, may I merely state that as regards sound records as understood by a phonograph record, a graphophone record, or a telegraphonic record, the interests may not be the same.
I think that this section, if the other provisions of the bill are to remain in, should be amended so as to say that this shall not include a performance on a perforated music roll or on phonograph or music machine disks.
He has lived among these animals in a steel cage in their native haunts and has used a phonograph to record their language.
Ward, who owns a ranch near Eureka, California, says that the right kind of music will increase the production of milk, and that he uses a phonograph in the dairy barn.
The Internationale had become blurred and discordant, like a bad phonograph record.
The phonograph was playing the "Turkish Patrol," and a single incandescent lamp, swinging overhead, illumined the scene.
And with these, generally near the Longfellow end of the table, sat Emerson, talking in low tones and carefully measured utterances to his neighbor, or listening, and recording on his mental phonograph any stray word worth remembering.
In another sense every man who is anything other than a phonograph on legs is self-made.
If there is a very sensitive phonograph lying about here and there in unsuspected corners, that might account for some part of my revelations.
They told me to play thephonograph to send you a message.
It was not the taking away of the phonograph which distressed her--she felt that if anything could be accomplished by its use, it had already been done--but the hopelessness of the whole situation.
As a last desperate chance, I attempted to send you a message by means of the phonograph record.
The whole affair of the phonograph seemed trivial and useless.
There is a phonograph in the library--a small one.
Say, I can just see the old boy and his mates dancing and prancing around to the music of that phonograph and watching the place go up in smoke.
I'll try to show you when we have tried the phonograph test," replied Mr. Henderson.
She went with Raymond and found a crowd waiting at the booth where the phonograph man was doing business.
She dawdled about, started the phonograph going, read a little in a magazine, and seemed generally distraught.
If I hadn't thought of the phonograph I don't know what I should have done, for that man is quite capable of taking Baby away from my arms by main force.
Not entirely with Winnie's sanction, but in spite of her half-expressed disapproval, Azalea took the laughing child and ran back to the phonograph booth.
And there is a man makingphonograph records," young Gale went on.
The large reception hall was admirably adapted for this purpose, and the strains of a fine phonograph soon set all feet in motion.
She was turning blindly away, when the phonograph in the corner caught her eye and on an idle impulse she started it.
I heard the phonograph and told Welsh not to announce me.
A great many phonograph records sound as though the recorder had been performing to an audience no more spiritually resonant than the four walls of a factory.
I think that the makers of another kind of mechanical instrument must have realized this oversight on the part of the phonograph manufacturer.
For the records of the phonograph and of the electric piano, once they are made, are made.
The phonograph companies seldom give out a record which is not practically perfect in technic and intonation.
A worse trouble with thephonograph is that it seems to leave out of account that essential part of every true musical performance, the creative listener.
Thus, when the phonograph threatened to identify song with music in general, it threatened to give the art a setback and make the singer the arch-enemy of the wider musical culture.
Fortunately the phonograph now gives promise of averting this peril by bringing up its reproduction of absolute music near to its vocal standard.
Others might not have agreed with me, but I confess that none of the ingenious applications of the phonograph which I had seen seemed to be so well worth while as this.
However, to avoid all possible inconvenience to invalids, this little lever is provided, which at a touch will throw the phonograph out of gear or back again.
Everybody had at home a phonograph box of standard size and adjustments, to which all phonographic cylinders were gauged.
Upon his suggestion, the attendant had taken down a phonograph case and placed it on the counter.
The phonographhas at last made it possible to expand the mind without cramping the body.
There is no class," he said, "whose burdens the phonograph has done so much to lighten as parents.
Even a phonograph or an electric light is all a mystery to me.
Future generations will be more favored, if Mr. Edison's improvedphonograph fulfils the promises made of it.
They had a piano and a phonograph and books and toys.
We soon opened up our pianos, put on our phonograph records, and took to singing again.
As yet, the phonograph has not been put to any practical use; indeed, it is scarcely in operation yet, and a great deal must be done to increase the delicacy of its hearing and the strength of its voice.
But Phonograph Davis, his appetite for fun not yet appeased, had something more up his sleeve.
Every man turned to look, and what they saw drove from their minds all thoughts of carrying out Phonograph Davis's rather time-worn contribution to the evening's amusement.
After them stumbled Phonograph Davis, in the character of the bride's father, weeping into a saddle blanket with sobs that could be heard a mile away.
It's the chief of the hairy tribe," said Phonograph Davis.
Phonograph Davis, self-appointed to carry out the sentence, stood ready, with a pair of stout leather leggings in his hands.
The hard briskness of the phonograph contented them; their store of jazz records made them feel wealthy and cultured; and all they knew of creating music was the nice adjustment of a bamboo needle.
Ted and as flabby as chorus-men, but powerful to dance and to mind the phonograph and smoke cigarettes and patronize Tanis.
Mr. Keen set the recording phonograph in motion by dropping his elbow on his desk.
Mr. Keen calmly dropped his elbow on the concealed button which prepared a hidden phonograph for the reception of every word that passed between them.
The phonograph music hits only the ears of your prospect.
If the phonograph music proves very attractive to him, you will need to keep hammering at him with forceful changes of voice, with gestures, by touching him, or by doing something else to make his attention to the music "let go.
He caressed her and called her his armful of dearest woman, although she detected his eye roving impatiently to the phonograph with its unfinished letter.
I'd promised myself to get a reply off on the first machine in the morning," he explained, as he pressed on the phonograph and began dictating.
At last one of the men got up with his finished letter and quietly removed the phonograph and a few of its devotees who were not going up to the front yet, placing them outside at a safe distance from the hut.
First soldier: "They've got a piano and a phonograph and lots of records.
They found that a soldier on guard had raised a window, and although this did not allow him room to enter the hut, he was able to reach the table where the phonograph stood.
The phonograph was soon forthcoming and brought much pleasure.
DEAR MISS BOOTH:-- We want to thank you for presenting our crew with an elegant phonograph and 25 records.
Say a silver cup or a phonograph or a set of books or something?
From the time of his conception of the phonograph in 1877 to the present day Edison has had a deep conviction that people want good music in their homes.
It consisted of a disk of paper, the indentations being formed in a volute spiral, exactly as in the disk phonograph to-day.
Edison's work on the disc phonograph and record, invented by him in 1878, is related in the following pages.
It was this instrument which gave me the idea of the phonograph while working on the telephone.
His work in this field kept him intensely busy for nearly ten years, and thephonograph was laid aside as far as he was concerned.
In his earliest experiments a cylinder about the size of a phonograph record was used.
His excursion into the musical realm has also included the personal hearing of many singers so as to determine their fitness for making phonograph records.
Edison's principal requirements were potash for his storage battery and carbolic acid and paraphenylenediamine for use in the manufacture of disc phonograph records.
Mr. Edison's own account of the invention of the phonograph is intensely interesting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phonograph" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cartridge; intercom; needle; phonograph; pickup; stereo; stylus; tap; turntable
