This looks unusual, maybe a combination of record player and pancake maker!

It would be interesting to know if Germany, France, Spain and Italy converged to the respective translations of "His Master's Voice" with some coordination more or less around the same years, but honestly I don't know. Ciao, Marco! The change in France was in the 30s, from disque Gramopho...

Congrqtulations for the excellent result, Alastair! Very good-looking horn, and well constructed. About the floating part, some modern turntable arms did not have bearings, but were built floating on a quite dense and viscous silicon oil tub and balanced from the top with threads. Maybe this could b...

It is a legitimate machine, but the seller only accepts bank transfers, which would not be a prudent thing to do. There is not even a town in the seller info, it only indicates Germany. Caveat emptor.

Lumière diaphragm (or what's left of it after a cat fight)?

Very interesting machine indeed! The fan resembles the Lumière diaphragm, with the needle connection directly to the center of the fan, differing in that the Lumière utilizes a wooden rod as link between the paper center and the needle. The name on the label suggests an English machine, quite unique...

Buster Keaton, the genius! A burning movie!

Victor had also at least one autographed record, see viewtopic.php?f=3&t=46130

It is a nice informative video and an ambitious undertaking! For the future videos, I suggest you remove the ¨pop¨ sound everytime an info card appears. This way we can sway to the hula with no distractions.

DRGM is the German intellectual property registry.