A gramophone is an old-fashioned device that plays music or recorded audio by using a needle to read grooves on a rotating disk. It's like an ancestor of the modern record player. Full definition
Marclay is known as a pioneer in the use of gramophone records and turntables as musical instruments to create sound collages, according to MoMA. (hamptonsarthub.com)
Known for his use of gramophone records and turntables as musical instruments to create the sound collages, Marclay for the occasion of his new exhibition Six New Animations, uses thousands of images of the payment beneath his feet, routinely snapped photographs of commonly discarded objects he finds during his walks. (widewalls.ch)
I am guessing minus ten and moonlight, and then I will stoke the fire, put a record on the old gramophone with Billie Holiday's voice almost a whisper, like when I heard her in the Oslo Colosseum some time in the 50s, almost burned out, yet still magic, and then fittingly get drunk on a bottle I have standing by in the cupboard. (bookbrowse.com)