It was designed with a den intended to hold his record collection, which now numbers 2,000 compact discs, 1,700 long-playing records, and 3,300 singles.
And from 1934 until 1948 the first practical long-playing records were used almost exclusively by blind people who listened to the world's first audiobooks.
With the advent of cheap long-playing records, unscrupulous companies issued records of material under pseudonyms to avoid paying royalties or because they did not own the copyright to the recordings.
The cylinder rises out of a giant circular platform like a tilted, long-playing record which, like the cylinder's scrim, is a surface for sophisticated visual imagery.