machine, this is singer, well, it was nationalized, called the seagull, the same with gramophones, putiphonesant was pathé, that is, here. all the soviet melody studios, gram records that existed there, they they were all made on the basis, well, in fact, these same factories existed, they were just nationalized, i repeat, they were named differently, the records were fashionable, they were produced for a very long time, and well, as if even before tvs, people needed something listen, dance, they were popular, there was even such a story, shellac records, the material was expensive, you could go and turn in three, scrap them... get new records, well, with some extra payment, you know, if we are talking about the fifties, in the forties, then anyone could afford a wearable gramophone a soviet family, probably living in the city, well, who received decent salaries, if we are talking about 1901 there, then only wealthy people could afford such a device, a phonograph, a cromophone, which means... its cost was the annual salary of an average clerk, that is, well, it was expensive, i must pay tribu