Neat-o German children's phonograph

phonophan79 · Post by **phonophan79** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:17 pm

Neat-o German children's phonograph on eBay. Never seen one like this before.

The winning bid of US $415.25 was a little steep for me. Looks to be made by the famous "Bing" company?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0351949698

Measures about 10" diameter, horn measures about 7" diameter x 10" long.

solophoneman · Post by **solophoneman** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:41 pm

What an interesting little child's windup phonograph. I wonder if Merle, the Little Wonder Lady saw that one. She loves to collect unusual little phonos like that one.

Fredrik · Post by **Fredrik** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:13 pm

Yes, that's the logo of the "Bing Werke" in the first picture. You can recognize it from the Bingola label that I posted in another thread:

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... ngola#p758

Fredrik

solophoneman · Post by **solophoneman** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:18 pm

Do you suppose that is the wrong crank for that little machine. It looks like you can't turn it without hitting the table on the way around.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:34 am

Sorry for dragging up an old thread but I believe that crank is correct and I noted that no one had responded.

I've had a number of Bing machines and the long crank is not unusual, so winding them up does mean that you either get sore knuckles or that you have to perch them on the edge of a table top. Neither option was particularly clever when you consider the age group these were originally intended for ie. not over 50's as it might well be now!

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