Which device was used to listen to music before cassette players were introduced?
Correct answer: Phonograph record
mousie4
Tape recorders can be reel to reel, music can be recorded and listened to and they were available well before cassette recorders.
Leapfoot
Grew up with LP's and turntables.
AdeShake
Champion, I still have a vinyl collection too
Kiwozzie
I love listening to my Vinyl collection!
BrainTek
I read it wrong but the question is also wrong. the phonograph was the first record player but the record players prior to cassettes aren't photographs. There were also 8 tracks.
RushMama2112
Our vinyl collection is huge! I worked at Tower Records and hubby (pre-me) had a very well paying job so we both had large collections. Put them (and us) together in 1980 and kept buying until CDs came along. We still buy a record occasionally; last one was re-release of Permanent Waves.
marimargo
In addition to my 33 1/3 record collection, I have quite a few 45s from 1950s artists I liked.
Lionessa
I have every record I ever owned, most are around fifty years old. I have stored each one inside a paper sleeve, then a cardboard shuck, then the whole thing inside a plastic sleeve. Every album has been cleaned before each playing with a velvet "DiscWasher," which I still have. My albums are pristine.
DrBanner
Tape recorder equipment was very frequently used by radio stations of on reel to reel format they would pre-record for their broadcast stopping only for commercial and to talk.
Wozza
Never heard the term Disc Phonograph before - in NZ / Australia simply known as a Stereogram : remember lining up the playlist of 45s on the center spindle!
Tres
Bailey, your objection highlights why “phonograph record” is the only correct answer. The cassette tape and the phonograph record both carry the physical or electronic imprint of sound itself, which is reproduced through speakers byx the cassette tape player and record player, respectively. The tape recorder was the player, and did not hold the recording, which was on the tape.
Dr.Taike
Why did the vinyl record go to therapy? It couldn’t stop spinning over the same issues!
Giggle Pig
RushMama2112, ought to make a great estate sale one day.
mum
mousie4, I agree. Tape recorder is also a correct answer
Bernie
Actually 8 track was before cassettes.
Player #96070952
what about 8track players or real to real
Love
I know them as a record player. Long time ago. My mother had those.
Steve O
reel to reel were around before cassets of 8 tracks
wilco
reel to reel tape recorders
hi
Leapfoot, ah 73 and a third, 45 sl. oh bakelite;
504native
I have over 200 vinyl from 50s, 60s, 70s
marimargo
Lionessa, My collection is almost equal to yours. I don't have the cardboard shuck in plastic. My father taught me the right way to take care of records from the time I was 10 years old. You asl don't touch the recording grooves because oil from your fingers gets on the record. Only hold them around the edge.
Lionessa
Rick , Not exclusively. Reel to reel tape decks were in schools, psychiatric and psychological treatment facilities, and of course, in music. I knew at least two guys in college who had reel to reel tape recorders just so they didn't have to flip an album after the move-making began.
Rick
I somewhat disagree. tapes were used in recording studio
Player #139658365
mousie4, agree.. the first answer is also a correct answer!
Player #97184361
I love my Vinyl collection which has become second to CD my number one love as I can produce my own collection of songs how long and mixes. ! ! !
Bailey
A phonograph record needs a record player to play the record on. Please correct your question .
elric
I'm fairly sure reel to reel tape recorders came before cassettes and after vinyl