Is this a Melba or not?

[Schlick]

What a fantastic and rare set up. However, no matter how many times you use the word Melba.....it won't make it so .

Agreed!!! (I was even a bit surprised Randy listed it that way.) But it's all in honor of my late father's long standing misnomer!! Sort of a running joke, especially in light of all the things he did get right?!

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet..." (Shakespeare)

[drh]

..."What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet..." (Shakespeare)

"A rose by any other name would smell--and how!" -- some wag whose name I forget

[Starkton]

This is the early version of the stand, introduced in the fall of 1903, see the floral carvings on the door. Thus fits very well with the contemporaneous gramophone model. Here is a thread on the German forum which shows both versions: https://grammophon-platten.de/e107_plug ... 42466.last

[gramophone78]

..."What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet..." (Shakespeare)

"A rose by any other name would smell--and how!" -- some wag whose name I forget

We can only try to educate...

Stephan, I guess my stand is a type II ? I use it for my "Melba" type hot-air Gramophone

[Steve]

You have a great machine there and I prefer it to the Melba. It is a machine I would love to own.

The machine featured in the link you give is a De Luxe II (an overseas version of the ‘New Melba’), this is different to the older style ebonized ‘Melba’. The thread shows that the De Luxe II was sold in Spain as a Monarch 13 but, as far as I know, generally appeared as De Luxe II elsewhere.

Jamie

Agreed. When a machine is as good and as rare as this is (even without the pedestal) I'd love to own it for my collection. I find I care less and less about the academia when it's as fine as this. It takes me right back to the beginning when I craved to find any open horn model to have on display and all the books and fact finding weren't in the frame.

[epigramophone]

In later years the Melba name was applied to this cheaply made machine. What would Nellie have thought?

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auct ... c20069083a

[gramophone78]

In later years the Melba name was applied to this cheaply made machine. What would Nellie have thought?

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auct ... c20069083a

Yes, and a reproducer to die for.....if you can find one.

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[Starkton]

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Stephan, I guess my stand is a type II ? I use it for my "Melba" type hot-air Gramophone :lol: 100_3799.JPGMelba Stand (5).JPG
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Yes, this is the later version (from 1904) of pedestal type II.

By the way, pedestal type I is this: