Not necessarily in terminology, a phonograph can mean both a disc and cylinder machine. While gramophone is specifically a disc machine it’s more of a term that was used by the British/European. You’ll find companies from the 20s all the way into the 40s referring to their disc machines as phonographs in the US, and that’s mainly impart to Edison who kept calling his line of disc machines phonographs
The actual difference between a phonograph and a gramophone isn't disc vs. cylinder. A phonograph uses a mechanical feed to drive the playing mechanism across the record, but a gramophone relies on the grooves in the record to do that job. The reason Americans don't use the word "gramophone" is that the inventor, Emile Berliner, lost the rights to use that trademarked name in the USA in a lawsuit, so everything became a phonograph instead. Outside the USA, the gramophone/phonograph distinction carried on.
Not necessarily in terminology, a phonograph can mean both a disc and cylinder machine. While gramophone is specifically a disc machine it’s more of a term that was used by the British/European. You’ll find companies from the 20s all the way into the 40s referring to their disc machines as phonographs in the US, and that’s mainly impart to Edison who kept calling his line of disc machines phonographs
The actual difference between a phonograph and a gramophone isn't disc vs. cylinder. A phonograph uses a mechanical feed to drive the playing mechanism across the record, but a gramophone relies on the grooves in the record to do that job. The reason Americans don't use the word "gramophone" is that the inventor, Emile Berliner, lost the rights to use that trademarked name in the USA in a lawsuit, so everything became a phonograph instead. Outside the USA, the gramophone/phonograph distinction carried on.
Great video thank you for posting. When you have time check out my cylinders playing on some very rare machines.