The Micro-Perophone Chromogram

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Video with my Micro Perophone playing

https://youtu.be/3RoBJJqIaeo

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[quote="sigurbjorn"]Video with my Micro Perophone playing


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkJys54Vk8U&t=34s

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An icelandic newspaper ad about Perophone gramophones from 1930.One of them looks like model 23
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Yes the machine on the left is an MP23 identical to my own, which is pictured earlier on this thread.

I also recognise the Micro-Perophone "Grippa" portable. One of these in Oxblood Red, given to me at the age of ten in 1957, was the first gramophone I ever owned. I wish I still had it now, but I literally wore it out, and a broken portable gramophone was not considered worth saving in those days. You could still buy an HMV102 brand new in a shop!

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Finally together and sounds good
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Very good machines. I see you now have the correct soundbox for it which probably makes it sound as good as it can be.
I am still looking for one of the biggest models of the Micro-Perophone, either model 27 or model 28, with sound reproduction probably equivalent to the second largest re-entrant H.M.V. model

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old country chemist wrote:Very good machines. I see you now have the correct soundbox for it which probably makes it sound as good as it can be.
I am still looking for one of the biggest models of the Micro-Perophone, either model 27 or model 28, with sound reproduction probably equivalent to the second largest re-entrant H.M.V. model
Yes after three years search for correct soundbox I found one in Germany with help from epigramophone.

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One Perophone ad from Icelandic newspaper from 29.06.1929
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It is an MP22 with what appears to be a Meltrope III soundbox. Forum member "Old Country Chemist" owns a fine example.

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