Sentence examples for a phonographic from inspiring English sources

A musical savant with a "phonographic" memory learns the melodies to hundreds of operas, as well as what every instrument plays and what every voice sings.

There's also a recording of the musical notation on a phonographic wax cylinder, but it's so fragile it will be destroyed by its own playback, so McIntyre has provided a digital version of the recording.

The "Official E.T. Fan Club" offered photographs, a newsletter that let readers "relive the film's unforgettable moments [and] favorite scenes", and a phonographic record with "phone home" and other sound clips.

I've always considered myself a bit of a music nerd, and as I may have mentioned before, I have what I call a phonographic memory -- meaning I can remember the words to every song I've ever heard but somehow I won't remember your name the first six times I'm reintroduced to you.

If Brooks writes like Fitzgerald, documenting tragedy beneath the glamour that both charmed and repelled her, Miller is more like a Dreiser of anecdotes, endowed as she was with a seeming total recall, a photographic and phonographic memory that vigorously and artlessly conjures an era and its conflicts through the accretion of surprising details and precise, incisive observations.

Last year, I came across a list of Thomas Mann's favorite records — "the first in a series of phonographic preferences by laymen of note in public affairs," the Saturday Review of Literature called it — and decided to revive the feature, first on my blog and then here at the Culture Desk.

By Alex Ross May 14 , 2012 Last year I came across a list of Thomas Mann's favorite records — "the first in a series of phonographic preferences by laymen of note in public affairs," the Saturday Review of Literature called it — and decided to revive the feature, first on my blog and then here at the Culture Desk.

Her debut, "I Dreamed a Dream," was the most popular album around the world, with 8.3 million sales, according to a new report by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a trade group based in London.

According to a report released on Monday by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a trade group based in London, record companies last year spent $2.7 billion on artists and repertory — finding, signing and developing artists — or about 16 percent of the industry's global wholesale revenue.

John Kennedy, chief executive of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a music industry group that has taken a leading role in driving the case forward, said the decision "sent a strong message about the importance of copyright".

IN an effort to stymie Internet pirates, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, a music industry group, is asking European lawmakers to require Internet service providers to use filters to block the illicit transfer of copyrighted material (dslreports.com).com