I was reading about the Phonograph the other day
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.
office, peeling potatoes. He is also admiring his carefully formed curls in a mirror, reading poems of Byron, and listening to a phonograph. The phonograph plays a recording, on a wax cylinder, of a mournful song about a lost ship, the "Laughing Sally." Cargunka imagines himself as the captain of a ship lost forever at sea as well, and jots down his own rhymes inspired by the music. The third stanza begins:
The "Laughing Sally" sailed awaybr
Into the Evermore that day