The gramophone is a piece of equipment which rotates a cylinder or disk record that causes a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified with a horn.  Invented by Thomas A Edison in 1877, it consists of three parts; sound box (reproducer), horn, and rotating record (turn table).  The original manual record player was converted to electric-motor and to wind-up type.  There are various models of gramophones such as Edison models or EMG models.  The variety of gramophones is widely divided into four styles; trumpet type, desktop type, portable type, and floor type.

Some may think the sound of gramophone is very small and soft, but it is not.  In the high period of gramophone from the end of 19th century to the beginning of 20th century, over a million people enjoyed its great sound in a dance hall or a large salon.  Middle sized type has enough volume and a large one could even entertain more than 300 hundred people.  Stylus was the easiest way to control the volume with different kinds from small to large sound.