NICE EARLY GRAPHOPHONE

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NICE EARLY GRAPHOPHONE

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Hello,
Just thought that some of you might enjoy seeing a couple pictures I took of an early Graphophone that was at a local museum.
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Hi Pete. To bad that Museum wasn't in your house. Thanks for posting the picture, it's a beautiful machine.

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Wow, what a rare beauty! I always dream about stumbling across one of these at a flea market or barn sale ;)

Thanks for sharing.
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Seems a sewing machine metamorphosed to phonograph!
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This machine sits in the Alexander Graham Bell Museum in Baddeck Nova Scotia.
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Pretty tough to beat a treadle powered Bell-Tainter!

I saw Graphophone #1 in April, 2016. And got to touch it, and thoroughly examine it. That was an experience I'll never forget.

Thanks for sharing!

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doublemike wrote:Seems a sewing machine metamorphosed to phonograph!
Very similar, but on inspection most if not all is specially cast. Sewing machines do not have the drive wheel on the left.

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Does that look like a nine cylinder to play.?? That is a great machine. Tom B

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Is that simply a rubber covering on the mandrel, or is there actually a cylinder there?

I have been wondering whether any cylinders of the Bell-Tainter type have survived in playable condition. The E.M.I. collection in England has a battery-powered Graphophone (later than this one, since it includes an alternative Edison-sized mandrel) together with a whole crate of cylinders of the original pattern, but I think they are only blanks.

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It was my understanding that the factory that built the early Columbia machines was formerly a sewing machine factory.

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