Make: Paillard
Model: Phono Viola
Serial # -
Year(s) Made: 1920's
Original Cost: ?
Case/Cabinet Size: -
Turntable/Mandrel: -
Reproducer/Sound-Box: Paillard
Motor: Paillard
Horn Dimensions: -
Reproduction Parts: none
Current Value: ?
Interesting Facts: Machine slides into the horn.
Favorite Characteristics: Kind of different to what one is used to seeing.
In its packed form, the machinery is inside the "horn"
Phonograph unpacked - one can see where the horn attaches to the phonograph
Horn in playing position
Featured Phonograph № 33
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- Victor IV
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Re: Featured Phonograph № 33
Very interesting!
I remember a thread 1-2 years ago discussing a violin-phonograph... and that was a reproduction. That one had an entire violin sitting on top of the record as the soundbox and horn in one.
I have never seen this machine or knew of it's existence. It is very neat to see it's practicality, compoents in the horn and what not.
The reproducer and tonearm look like generic Paillard stock. How does it sound? Where did you get this machine? It looks like only a 7" turntable?
Please make a YouTube video of this if you have the capability!
Thanks for sharing!
I remember a thread 1-2 years ago discussing a violin-phonograph... and that was a reproduction. That one had an entire violin sitting on top of the record as the soundbox and horn in one.
I have never seen this machine or knew of it's existence. It is very neat to see it's practicality, compoents in the horn and what not.
The reproducer and tonearm look like generic Paillard stock. How does it sound? Where did you get this machine? It looks like only a 7" turntable?
Please make a YouTube video of this if you have the capability!
Thanks for sharing!
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- Victor III
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Re: Featured Phonograph № 33
Sidewinder,
That is a cunning little portable! I love it! Thanks for sharing it.
Regards,
John
That is a cunning little portable! I love it! Thanks for sharing it.
Regards,
John
Listening to the Victrola fifteen minutes a day will alter and brighten your whole life.
Use each needle only ONCE!
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- Victor III
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Re: Featured Phonograph № 33
I don't normally comment on the featured phonographs, but this one is so interesting, I just felt I had to make my feelings known.
Makes me wish I had a job back in the '20s designing portable phonographs.
Makes me wish I had a job back in the '20s designing portable phonographs.
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- Victor III
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Re: Featured Phonograph № 33
Hello
The turntable is just over 9 inches in diameter. The machine with the whole violin is "Le Palmodian". Seen more, as a copy (i.e. fake!) and very rarely in original.
The turntable is just over 9 inches in diameter. The machine with the whole violin is "Le Palmodian". Seen more, as a copy (i.e. fake!) and very rarely in original.
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- Victor IV
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Re: Featured Phonograph № 33
Speaking of "Le Palmodian"...
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0452864022
...and it's on YouTube now. (while i'm impressed visually, I can't say i'm impressed audibly)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXRm1zUhJcg[/youtube]
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0452864022
...and it's on YouTube now. (while i'm impressed visually, I can't say i'm impressed audibly)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXRm1zUhJcg[/youtube]
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- Victor Monarch
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Re: Featured Phonograph № 33
That's one of the modern reproductions. From what I gather the originals had a more complex stylus system and were a bit more responsive- but still a novelty.