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  • n  a brand of gramophone

  • The tunes are marvelous but the way Army bands have played them in the past has made them sound like an old-fashioned victrola which needed to be wound up.
  • From three-year-olds he got reactions such as "I like my horsy record I put it on the victrola .
  • A friend remembers that when Crane was drunk, dancing alone to the victrola that seemed to accompany him everywhere, he had "absolute abandon and, at the same time, a certain .
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    A Victrola record player, circa early-1900s, and costumed re-enactors were part of a celebration Sunday of the Sherwood Island State Park centennial. Photo: Jarret Liotta
    Aug. 26, 2013 - Westport News
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    A Victrola record player, circa early-1900s, and costumed re-enactors were part of a celebration Sunday of the Sherwood Island State Park centennial. Photo: Jarret Liotta
    Aug. 26, 2013 - Westport News
Quotes

  • BB King in Biloxi Sun Herald
    The most worthwhile thing about Aunt Mima's place was her crank-up Victrola, a machine that changed my life,writes BB King, Itta Bena's King of the Blues. "Aunt Mima taught me to gently put on the platter, set down the needle, and watch...
  • Carl Kasell in Barre Montpelier Times Argus
    My grandmother had a wind-up Victrola and about two records,Kasell said. "I'd sit there as a kid and play those things over and over again like I was a deejay."

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