Expert All Range Horn advertisement.

[epigramophone]

Here is an advertisement which does not appear in the Frank James book :

[pallophotophone]

On a similar note,
I have a Western Electric 15B theater horn in my collection and have often wondered how the EMG or a Orthophonic would sound played through it.
But the though of getting the plumbing right to couple the 2 devices correctly is beyond daunting.

[pallophotophone]

Any idea how many of these were sold?

[epigramophone]

Any idea how many of these were sold?

The sales figures no longer exist, but given that the standard UK door aperture measures 30 inches, probably not many.

[chunnybh]

Check out this recent post by Watanabehi. The magazine front page shows a Western Electric driver attached to a tonearm.

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[Inigo]

A very interesting piece of advertising, although a bit misleading, as the pictured gramophone bears a standard expert horn, not the mentioned 36" all range horn. So is clearer reading the whole text.
I only know of a photo of a gramophone with such all range horn installed, and it's a well known photo, which i saw first in the Boris Semeonoff book on record collecting, referring to it as a friend's music corner with the lowboy gramophone, the 36"horn and a record shelf aside. But I've also seen that same photo, i don't remember now if it is in Francis James's book on in another place ..

[emgcr]

Here is an All Range with fine pedestal case which I think is located in Japan. It could possibly have a bell mouth diameter in excess of 36 inches---hard to judge.

[emgcr]

Here are a couple more photos of the same instrument suggesting that it is probably a "standard" 36 inch All Range.

Many years ago Ian Maxted remembers seeing a horn at Heathrow awaiting transport to Japan which he thinks might have had a 48" diameter bell mouth (or even larger) but no photos exist as far as I am aware.

[BassetHoundTrio]

Thanks for sharing that - great to see.