Thorens, yeah, but what else? Anyone recognize this machine?

[jboger]

Looks like it a linear tracking. Judging by the finish on the case, it dates from the 1960s. What sort of record does it take?

[phonogal]

It's a Thorens disc music box.

[jboger]

Thanks. Have found a bit more now that I know it's a music box. Somehow thought it was larger. First year of production was 1943.

[Mr Grumpy]

A model AD30?

[tinovanderzwan]

haven't i seen these brand new but with brass interior???

[Phototone]

Thorens made that mechanism for many many years, and put it into different cases. I have one exactly like this, and my father bought it for me brand new for Christmas in about 1960. We later bought a few boxes of assorted tunes to augment the 2 cartons of discs I got with the machine. It can sound quite good.

[jboger]

From what I quickly read on one website, it is an AD30, with the 30 designating the number of notes. There is a company in Switzerland that still sells the AD30 even though it looks like it was discontinued in 2010. I forget the name of the company; it began with an R. This company bought Thorens in something like 1986 and made the disk music box up until 2010. This being a Thorens dates it to before 1986. The finish to the wood strikes me as a product of the 1960s.

[De Soto Frank]

Wasn't there a modern incarnation of the "Regina" music box ?

[Curt A]

I have one of the Thorens music boxes and also the Reuge version which takes the same discs, which I purchased in Switzerland several years ago. The Reuge box is very fancy inlay work and was made in Italy and the works were made in Switzerland.

1865 - Present

Sainte-Croix village was the renowned centre of the nascent music box industry.
It was this village - whose fame had travelled far and wider - that Charles Reuge discovered in 1865, when he established his first musical pocket-watch shop in Sainte-Croix.
A pioneer, he managed to incorporate a musical cylinder and a miniature comb into a watch movement. These watches were just a beginning.
The Reuge family's days of distinction were far from over and their music boxes are still made today.

[rizbone]

Wasn't there a modern incarnation of the "Regina" music box ?

I think that would be the porter music box

http://www.portermusicbox.com/