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 ...

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 ...

Depression teaches humility, softens pride. For many years the two great talking machine companies of the world have wanted to merge, time & again they have refused to make minor concessions. But last ...

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