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by Curt A »
"but it had no horn or opening for sound. Not sure what they were thinking."
Obviously, they weren't thinking, unless they thought that removing the needle cups to let the sound out was a good idea...

"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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