Featured Phonograph No. 79 - Columbia AO

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FloridaClay
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Re: Featured Phonograph No. 79 - Columbia AO

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As others have said, a beautiful machine indeed.

As an aside, I wonder why it is that (as far as I know) nobody makes good reproductions of the infamous Columbia potmetal carriage assemblies? There are a lot of otherwise wonderful machines out there so there would seem to be a market.

Clay
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FloridaClay wrote:As others have said, a beautiful machine indeed.

As an aside, I wonder why it is that (as far as I know) nobody makes good reproductions of the infamous Columbia potmetal carriage assemblies? There are a lot of otherwise wonderful machines out there so there would seem to be a market.

Clay
Jean Paul Agnard makes reproductions of some Columbia carriage assemblies.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/jean-paul.agna ... uction.htm

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