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Columbia Symphony Grand

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“On This Day in the History of Recorded Sound…”

November 10, 1908: Walter Eckhardt was granted a U.S. patent (No.903,364) for a “Cabinet for Talking Machines.” This was Columbia’s first internal-horn machine (thereafter called a Grafonola), the “Symphony Grand.” Although this first Grafonola was in the style of an upright piano, Columbia pioneered the disguising of talking machines as tables and grand pianos.

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