phonographern.

1845 I. Pitman Man. Phonogr. 49 Phonographers who wish to become reporters, should, from the commencement, cherish reporting habits.

1851 R. C. Trench Study of Words vii. 215 The word ‘temps’; from which the phonographers eject the p as superfluous.

1887 Harper's Mag. Jan. 319/2 The larger number of interviewers are not phonographers.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 666/2 Pitman, Sir Isaac.., English phonographer, was born at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, on the 4th of January 1813.

1949 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 34 352 What made the stenographer (then called phonographer) turn to indirect discourse for the next few sentences is unclear.

1963 M. B. Stern We the Women viii. 193 The ophthalmologist had not, however, forgotten that she was also a phonographer.

1890 Cent. Dict. Phonographer, one who uses or is skilled in the use of the phonograph.

1891 R. Routledge Discov. & Inventions 19th Cent. (ed. 8) 561 It is said that an eminent prima donna has applied for an injunction to restrain certain phonographers from reproducing her vocal triumphs with their instruments.

a1959 C. Sachs Wellsprings of Music (1965) ii. 14 Ethnologists became eager, able phonographers and delivered an ample harvest to be taken care of in the Archiv.

1988 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 10 Aug. 9 The International Federation of Phonographers and Videogram Producers hopes that Indonesia's tape exports..will now be put to a stop.

2012 M. Hickey Music outside Lines iv. 78 Students will go one step further by not only acting as phonographers by recording sounds from a favorite place, but they will then manipulate them into a musical composition.