record player

noun, an apparatus for reproducing sound from phonograph records by means of a turntable and stylus (COD)

“They would get together and have a party, and several times they would be down here in my basement, and she had a record player.”

“In the wintertime, well, we used to have the skating rink … outdoor rink with the lights strung across it, and they’d have a record player. “Sink the Bismarck”, that was one of the favourite songs on there.”

“I don’t know if we got a record player.”

“Anyway, there’s an antique store there, and we were roaming around one day, and there was this little record player that you crank up.”

“Then they went to records, you know. God, I remember the Catholic Youth Organization buying a record player, and they used it. Instead of having to get an orchestra together, they’d use records for dances.”