English Study-That Old-time Sound, Captured Live in the Moment

scratchy-rough and unpleasant to the touch
              making a rough, unpleasant sound like something being scratched across a surface
distant-far away in space or time
assume- to think or accept that something is true but without having proof of it
relic- an object,  a tradition, a system etc. that has survived from the past
Presto recorder- a machine that captures sound by etching it directly onto a 78 RPM acetate disc
antique-old and often valuable