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Technology has changed art before — some predicted gramophones and cameras would replace live music and painting.—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 4 May 2026 Soldiers are drunk, women are topless, music is blaring out of a gramophone.—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026 Which was why, at the very end, when Gordon tuned in on the wireless to a dance band and Robert was supposed to waltz Olwyn about the room, Stella had no patience with St Ives’s reaction to Geoffrey’s ten-second delay in putting on the gramophone record.—Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026 My Proustian trigger was a portable gramophone designed by Mario Bellini for the Italian company Minerva.—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for gramophone