| 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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