What was used before the Phonograph?

The phonograph, developed by Edison 1878, played audio which was recorded in a groove on a hard wax cylinder. Ten years later, Emile Berliner developed the gramophone which played audio from a spiral groove on a rotating disk. In the 1910s, the gramophone record overtook Edison's phonograph cylinders and production of cylinders ceased entirely in 1926. Gramophone records remained the dominant form of audio playback for most of the rest of the 20th century, until they were overtaken by the digital compact disc in the late 1980s.