A person who operates, maintains, or is skilled in the use of a gramophone; an early sound engineer or recording technician.
From gramophone + -ist suffix (one who specializes in or operates something); coined to describe the new profession of gramophone operators in the early 20th century.
Gramophonists were the DJs of their era—they curated which recordings were played at events and understood the technical quirks of these temperamental mechanical devices in a way most people didn't.
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