The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

This is the patent for the amplifier and tone control for the Magnola Talking Machine. The machines parent company was a piano company by the name of M. Schultz in Chicago.

I've never seen or heard a horn like that in action before. This is pretty neat. I know you have or had a Magnola Talking Machine; how is the sound?

It sounds good, like an old radio. But the reproducer is an old Heineman pot metal one, and don’t sound great even rebuilt, I have to close the lid.