The phonographer had dressed himself in clothes that were less foppish than his usual attire.

Mr. DeLaurenti also identifies himself as a phonographer, one who creates pieces out of field recordings.

Christopher DeLaurenti (1967-) is a Seattle-based composer, improvisor and phonographer.

From 1872 through 1876 he worked as a freelance phonographer (shorthand secretary) and translator, producing English translations of five works by Jules Verne for serialization in the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.

The Complete Phonographer was followed in 1874 by a Dictionary of Practical Phonography, and in 1877 a revised edition of the Complete Phonographer appeared.

The SEL is managed by musician, anthropologist, and phonographer Ernst Karel, and directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor, ethnographic filmmaker of In and Out of Africa and Sweetgrass.