What the .....?

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Gramtastic
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This has just sold on Ebay UK for over £410 ! It looks to me like some terrible crapophone cobbled together with the intention of fooling people - the hand cranked motor is a 30's motor without a spring !
Unless I am missing something and this is actually a rare machine ? What d'ya think ? £410 !!!
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£400 wasted !
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Sing Lo....is this an Asian made machine....??. :lol:
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[quote="gramophone78"]Sing Lo....is this an Asian made machine....??. :lol:[/quote

No just very quiet !
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Considered as a bit of Steampunk I like it
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I dig it, and I don't think he's trying to fool anyone. Acoustic reproduction is so easy, and it's fun! If I had any metalworking skills at all, I'd do the same thing, with all the extra motors I have lying around.
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with the description of : "Hand Cranked Sing-Lo Antique Phonograph, Like Berliner, Extremely Rare", I would have to disagree....
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Ok. I was just going on the images posted here in this thread.
“The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.”

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And what the *honk* is that coil spring doing there? It looks as if someone dimly remembered a picture of an Echophone... :roll:

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Lucius1958 wrote:And what the *honk* is that coil spring doing there? It looks as if someone dimly remembered a picture of an Echophone... :roll:

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A coil spring attached to two valves from a car engine.
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