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phonograph needle

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Noun1.phonograph needle - a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record
stylus - a sharp pointed device attached to the cartridge of a record player


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If you want a long shelf life for your prized recordings, keep the records away from dirt, dust, smoke, fingerprints, and oils from human skin as well as faulty phonograph needles.
Its hard-wearing properties are used in fountain pen nibs, phonograph needles and electrical contacts.
Whether or not the devices actually did what they were said to do, the installation owed less to its sensuous realization than to its idea, which recalled a rich history of oddball phonographic experiments, among them Thomas Alva Edison's crackpot attempts to communicate with the dead and Rainer Maria Rilke's proposal to use a phonograph needle to play the human skull.
 
 
 
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