| Let's listen to music! |
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| Do you like music? |
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| Do you listen at home? |
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| Look at the pictures on these pages. |
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| These machines play music. |
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| There are old machines and new machines. |
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| First there was the phonograph. |
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| Thomas Edison invented it in 1877. |
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| He recorded music onto the cylinder. |
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| The cylinder is wood and metal. |
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| It turned round and round. |
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| It played the music. |
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| After that there was the gramophone. |
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| It played round, flat discs. |
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| There were songs on the discs. |
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| Usually, there was only one singer and a piano. |
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| Many people liked these big gramophones. |
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| A family listened together in their living room. |
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| Next, people invented the microphone. |
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| They recorded big bands. |
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| There were lots of drums, trumpets and singers. |
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| It was very exciting. |
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| lots of people wanted the music. |
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| The new gramophones were smaller. |
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| They were plastic and wood. |
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| The plastic was bright and colourful. |
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| The discs were plastic, too, and they were big. |
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| Later, people invented a smaller plastic disc. |
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| It was the CD. |
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| You can play a CD on a small machine. |
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| This is a CD player. |
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| You can easily use this in your bedroom. |
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| This is a very small machine. |
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| It's an iPod*. |
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| People can listen to music in the street or on the bus. |
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| They use earphones. |
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| This boy is listening to a very big band and the music player is in his hands! |
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| Listen 5 times |
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