French Aerophone

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French Aerophone

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Hi all,

I'm the new owner of a French Aerophone gramophone. It is in very poor condition and with some pieces missing. The original turnatable is missing, the tonearm is a strange contraption of several pieces, both springs have to be replaced and the horn is not the correct one. At least the soundbox is original!

I'm looking for information about it and all that I've found is some advertisings and some posters but no pictures (only the ebay ones where I bought it)

I would be delighted if anyone can share some pictures of another one so I can figure out the tonearm and horn. I'm not expecting to find any spare parts so I suspect I will have to reproduce them.

Thank you in advance,

Pedro Martinez

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Nice gramophone Pictures from Ebay
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seems to be an Aerophone catalogue for sale here for E12

http://www.phonogalerie.com/lang-franca ... documents/

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Thank you, but those pictures are from my gramophone :-)

As you can see, the turnplate sits too high and it too small and the tone arm is completely wrong.

Best regards,

Pedro

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walser wrote:Thank you, but those pictures are from my gramophone :-)

As you can see, the turnplate sits too high and it too small and the tone arm is completely wrong.

Best regards,

Pedro
I know just thought it would be good for people to see the machine , check out the catalogue fro sale !

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soundgen wrote:seems to be an Aerophone catalogue for sale here for E12

http://www.phonogalerie.com/lang-franca ... documents/
Thank you. I've ordered one last night. It will take around one month to arrive (I'm a Spanish guy currently living in Chile) and the post take forever to arrive.

Regards,

Pedro

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Re: French Aerophone

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This same design also available as a table model.

The horn as you say is wrong, Aerophone had a very unique shaped horn.
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US PHONO wrote:This same design also available as a table model.

The horn I think is wrong, Aerophone had a very unique shaped horn.
Yes, the horn is not the correct one. It should be something like the Fontanophone gramophone but more rounded. You can see a nice Fontanophone here: http://www.graphonogram.com/3-id-80-photo-1.html#photo

The soundbox of the Fontanophone is almost the same but mine is for lateral cut instead of vertical cut and its huge (66 mm mica diameter)

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Pedro

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Re: French Aerophone

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hi pedro
i'm prabalbly the guy that made this machine more exopensive for you as i was also bidding on this machine on ebay

but to work
not many peopla know how rare this machine is in the last 3 years i seen about 10 or so class M edisons but i only seen 3 areophones with yours beeing 1 of the 3 of those i only seen 1 complete example
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and the records going with it

aerophone records came in 2 versions vertical and lateral
the phonograph should have a set of 2 reproducers yours is the lateral one the one in the pics is the vertical one
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