Parlophone - fake or not?

[Orchorsol]

"Only the choice of record would be contentious..."

Something by Henry Burr (there seem to be millions of his records)... or Hawaiian... both bountiful and no real loss...

Attach a can of hairspray or carburetor cleaner to the tonearm, light it at the horn opening and the Crap-O-Phone turns into a Flame-O-Phone... (Don't try this at home, only professional stuntmen should attempt this, make sure you are wearing safety glasses and a flameproof suit, only do this in a well ventilated area outside your home)

Congratulations, you've just invented the pyrocrapauxetophone.

[tinovanderzwan]

tino[/quote]
A video of a crapophone playing a much-detested record, and exploding or being consumed by fire whilst it does so, would be tremendously satisfying. I can't wait Tino!

Only the choice of record would be contentious...[/quote]


well find me a crapo, sent it to me and it will happen!
the record... slim whitman and his indian love call..ken griffin and the cucoo waltz.. or maybe a bad copy of spike jones my old flame? any others!?

tino

[Oceangoer1]

That soundbox (if I'm seeing it correctly, I'd need to see the back) is from a Russian portable gramophone that is a copy of the HMV 102. They sound quite decent, are of good design, and they also fit the tonearms of Victor Orthophonics, and probably some of the later HMV tonearms.

If its cheap, I'd say to get it for the soundbox, and the useable parts (if the motor is from a REAL phonograph/gramophone) and then trash the rest.