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Entertainment > Music (Other) The Grammy Awards: A brief history

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The Grammy Awards have been an American music institution for nearly half a century. But what is a "Grammy" anyway?

"Grammy" is short for "Gramophone" and the actual Grammy Awards given out each year are modeled after this prototypical record player.

Notice I didn't call it a prototypical "phonograph." The phonograph and the gramophone, while similar, were different designs. Adding to the confusion, in between the two was a device called the "graphophone."

Thomas A. Edison, the famous American inventor, invented the phonograph (which from the Greek literally means "sound writer") ...

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