The Gaumont Chronophone: 1910.

Note the twin gramophones, driven from a common electric motor between them. An air hose goes to each valvebox from the control valve just under the air pressure gauge; I suspect that this control valve allowed the operator to crossfade between the two gramophones. DJ in the house!

The Auxetophone & Other Compressed-Air Gramophones: The Short but Loud Story of Compressed-Air Amplification

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Used like so and by this woman

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