Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by process]
7. [equipment for transmitting and reproducing sound]
8. audio equipment
9. audio players
10. phonographs (audio equipment)

Anotations

Scope note:

Instruments used for reproducing the sounds recorded onto rotating, usually vinyl, discs. Most particularly and commonly used for the latest, higher fidelity incarnation of the gramophone, which incorporates electronic amplification of sound and electrical power to drive the turntable. For the historical mechanical device invented by Emil Berliner, use 'gramophones.' For Thomas Edison's invention that recorded sound onto cylinders use 'cylinder phonographs.'