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Acoustic Recording
- a record made with a diaphragm and needle powered only by the force
of a voice.
Dialect - a regional variety of a language differing from the standard language. Diamond Disc - a heat resistant disc that required a diamond stylus to play the recording. Gramophone - an antique record player; the sound of the vibrating needle is amplified acoustically. Instrumental Music - composed for or performed on a musical instrument. Minstrel - a singer of verses accompanied by music. Phonograph - an instrument that reproduces sounded recorded on a grooved disk. Presto Disc Recorder - a recorder that used a stylus to engrave tracks into acetate coated discs. It weighed eighty pounds and was used to make the recordings found in Voices of the Dust Bowl. Rube - an awkward, unsophisticated person from a rural area; rustic. Slang - an informal nonstandard vocabulary composed of invented words, changed words, and exaggerated or humorous figures of speech. Sketch - a short comedy piece. Song - a short piece of music with words intended to be sung; the act or art of singing. Speech - the communication or expression of thoughts in spoken words. Vocal Music - composed or arranged for or sung by the human voice. |
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