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:

Early phonographic recording devices of the type invented by Léon Scott de Martinville in 1857, consisting of a horn or barrel focusing sound waves onto a membrane, and creating a visual analogue of soundwaves onto a lampblack-coated cylinder by means of a hog's hair bristle. It was the first sound recording device, but could not reproduce the recorded sound.