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Not mine but it's the first orthophonic Meteor I've seen.
http://chattanooga.craigslist.org/atd/4961346712.html
Orthophonic Meteor in Tennessee
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Victrola-Monkey
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De Soto Frank
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Re: Orthophonic Meteor in Missouri
Wow... that tone-arm looks like something out of Dr. Seuss ! 
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Victrolaboy
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Re: Orthophonic Meteor in Missouri
That's at an antique store in Chattanooga. I actually saw that in person and spoke to the seller. It has a reproducer with it but it's a Victor reproducer if I remember correctly.
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Uncle Vanya
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Re: Orthophonic Meteor in Tennessee
The machine would have originally been fitted with an Oro-Tone reproducer. If you think that the tone arm is funny, you should see the horn! It is made of vulcanized rubber, and shaped like a bubble pipe with a rectangular mouth. The horn runs to the bottom of the cabinet and then up again. These machines can play quite well.
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Uncle Vanya
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Re: Orthophonic Meteor in Tennessee
The machine would have originally been fitted with an Oro-Tone reproducer. If you think that the tone arm is funny, you should see the horn! It is made of vulcanized rubber, and shaped like a bubble pipe with a rectangular mouth. The horn runs to the bottom of the cabinet and then up again. These machines can play quite well.
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estott
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Re: Orthophonic Meteor in Tennessee
So it DOES have a saxophone type horn- that is more sophisticated than I'd thought.Uncle Vanya wrote:The machine would have originally been fitted with an Oro-Tone reproducer. If you think that the tone arm is funny, you should see the horn! It is made of vulcanized rubber, and shaped like a bubble pipe with a rectangular mouth. The horn runs to the bottom of the cabinet and then up again. These machines can play quite well.
Oro-Tone reproducers seem to suffer from pot metal issues worse than Victor.