I listened to a phonograph record when I was young.
was this before the 1950s when the discs were made from shellac?
I think all old school records are consider phonograph records, even vinyl records.
they all have grooves which start at the periphery and end near the centre
Older ones were made from shellac. They come in different sizes too.
Phonograph record
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or simply record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. At first, the discs were commonly made from shellac; starting in the 1940s polyvinyl chloride became common. In recent decades, records have sometimes been called vinyl records, or simply vinyl or even vinyls.
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