Masterphone Talking Machine

[JohnM]

Ian,
That is an Otto Heinemann Phonograph Supply Company high-quality generic motor. Heinemann first contracted (1915) with Garford in Elyria, Ohio (makers of the Vanophone, etc.) and in 1917 purchased the Meisselbach Co. of Newark, NJ. which also made motors. Heinemann produced the 'OkeH' line of records as well.

John M

[IanCrouch]

Greetings

For those interested I have made a scan of the original instruction manual that came with the Masterphone Talking Machine so that one can compare their claims of quality with references made in the lawsuit accusing them of fraud etc. Possibly interesting from a historical point of view!

Regards
Ian

[MordEth]

Ian,

Thanks for sharing these additional images (and John, for sharing further information)—I’ll have to parse these through OCR later today so that we will have the text of these manual pages (which would then be able to be searched via the forum search function).

If you’d be interested in scanning higher resolution copies (particularly for the diagrams—300 DPI is optimal for this), I’d be interested in making a PDF reproduction of it (as a free-to-all download from this forum), although even without larger images, I’d probably make a PDF as well when I OCR it.

See this thread (Edison Disc Motor manual) for an example of past work.

(Let me know if you have any questions about this.)

I still owe the TMF other manuals, as well—other members have been gracious enough to provide scans, and I’ve been far too busy and lazy of late (and will hopefully be getting back to work on producing more content for this forum during my day off tomorrow, if I am not undertaking a consulting project)...

— MordEth

[estott]

I noticed one thing in the instruction sheet: It says that the Edison stylus uses a SAPPHIRE point. A while back I got into an argument on this board with an individual who insisted that my Cheney stylus for Edison discs had to be a Diamond because Sapphire could not possibly stand up to the condensite surface. Well, if this maker says both the Edison and Pathé styluses were Sapphire then that's what they were.