Recommend books (EU gramophones)

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Layla
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Recommend books (EU gramophones)

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Do you have gramophone related books which you recommend?

I have two

For German gramophones:
Phonographen und grammophone (Herbert Jüttemann)

For gramophones in The Netherlands:
Spreekmachines (by Harry Belle)

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Re: Recommend books (EU gramophones)

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The Illustrated History of Phonographs by Daniel Marty ISBN 0-88029-388-8 covers French, German and other European manufacturers as well as American companies and their European branches.

French edition first published 1979. English edition 1981. Long out of print but reasonably easy to find.

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His Master's Gramophone by Christopher Proudfoot

The EMG Story by Frank James

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