Phonograph

Paris’s museum of recorded sound enjoys a reprieve

February 21, 2017Culture

One of Paris’s newest museums features crazy antique audio equipment, like a phonograph from the 1920s shaped like a ski chalet. But the museum almost had to close last year.

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Preserving America’s earliest recordings

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