Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Information Forms (hierarchy name)
5. information forms (objects)
6. information artifacts
7. [information artifacts by physical form]
8. recordings
9. sound recordings
10. phonograph records

Narrower term/s

• lacquer discs

Anotations

Scope note:

Phonograph recordings made by cutting or embossing grooves into semi-soft materials that could be played back multiple times. These allowed for home, field, or broadcast recordings. Often referred to as “instantaneous discs," they are known to have been made in other forms such as cylindrical belts.