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Panatrope|ˈpænətrəʊp|
Also panotrope and with small initial.
[f. pana-, pano-, of unknown origin + Gr. τροπή turn, turning.]
The proprietary name of a form of (electric) record-player capable of relatively loud reproduction.
1926Glasgow Herald 5 Oct. 5 There was no graduation of musical vibrations that the ‘Panatrope’ could not reproduce. 1928E. Waugh Decline & Fall ii. iii. 168 In a minute the panatrope was playing, David and Martin were dancing, and Peter was making cocktails. 1933Punch 16 Aug. 181/1 Whatever you may lack in the way of plush seats and panotropes you wouldn't see that at an ordinary cinema. c1940Dylan Thomas & Davenport Death of King's Canary (1976) vii. 125 A panatrope sounded over the crack of rifles, the smashing of crockery, the complaining of beasts. 1954Trade Marks Jrnl. 15 Sept. 921/1 Panatrope... Gramophones, radio gramophones, apparatus and instruments for recording and reproducing sound, parts and fittings..for all the aforesaid goods; and gramophone needles and gramophone records. The Decca Record Company Limited,..London,..manufacturers. 1961Times 28 Mar. 12/7 They must now man the ticket office, sell programmes, start the recalcitrant generator, warm up the panotrope. 1968D. Braithwaite Fairground Archit. 165 Panatrope, successor to the mechanical organ—gramophone turntables, amplifier and loudspeakers relaying noisy pop records. 1978C. Humphreys Both Sides Circle x. 114, I had a fight with the representative of the firm who had hired us the panatrope, or long-playing record machine. |