Now the dealers are admitting it:
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Frankenphone- and they SAY so!
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Re: Frankenphone- and they SAY so!
The seller knows enough to label it a "Frankenphone," but not enough to realize that it can't play an Edison DD.
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BANG! goes another HMV Intermediate Monarch.
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Re: Frankenphone- and they SAY so!
I thought that was a nice touch, also, and was wondering where Edison came into the picture, as the only Edison content that my very untrained eyes were seeing was the EDISON Re-Creation on the turntable.Ortho_Fan wrote:The seller knows enough to label it a "Frankenphone," but not enough to realize that it can't play an Edison DD.
Plus (and Steve, Richard or any other HMV expert, please correct me if I am wrong), I do not think that The Gramophone Company ever put their logo under the arm to support the horn so that it was partially obstructed.
Is that a HMV horn?
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Collectible Frankenphone Edison Talking Machine
From an estate is a Frankenphone Edison Talking Machine. The reason this is a Frankenphone is because of mixed components and put together in Pakistan and India in the last forty or fifty years according to source.
With this machine is an Edison 10" record perhaps ½" thick. One one side is “Roll On! Silver Moon—Yodel Song”. On the other side is “In the Sweet Long Ago”.
- Label on the box reads...“His Master’s Voice” and below “The Gramophone Co.”
- There is no serial number that I could find...looked under the turntable.
- The dial on the horn reads "Victor Talking Machine Co"...the rest is illegible.
- The needle cannot be used on any record because of its condition.
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Re: Frankenphone- and they SAY so!
Now no one can say he wasn't aware of it. The term Frankenphone has grown to a quite common name.