Boomboxes and cars with trunk speakers have been ways to express identity with plenty of volume. For those who cultivated them, it was music to their ears. As for others, well, one man's music is ...

It is a woman’s voice, but it sounds as though it comes drifting toward us across some vast and unbridgeable distance. It is all but drowned out by the snaps and the crackles and pops of what is by ...

Graphophone, recorded in October 1881. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy. I am a graphophone and my mother was a phonograph." Voice of Alexander ...

Appraisal: Columbia Toy Graphophone, from Vintage Richmond.APPRAISER: This was made by the Columbia Company in 1899. APPRAISER: And it cost three dollars when it was new. APPRAISER: And they couldn't ...

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