Symphonola

[dutchman]

https://charlottesville.craigslist.org/ ... 57015.html

Looks interesting. If I didn't just buy an Edison Standard the other day I would pick this up for a winter project....

Bill K

[emerson]

That is a nice looking machine and there are records from the company too, aren't there?

[dutchman]

I found this little tidbit on the web. The Canadian Symphonola Co. Ltd. was promoting the symphonola [sic] as Canada's "premier phonograph." The company also advertised a line of Imperial double-disc records, though there is some doubt that they were ever issued, despite claims of a 1,500-title catalogue."

Bill K

[OrthoSean]

Symphonola was a sold by the Larkin Company out of Buffalo NY. This machine is an example of one, I have one a little different than this one. Nice machine, and yes, there were Symphonola records. I don't believe this is related to company in Canada.

Sean

[Garret]

Symphonola was a sold by the Larkin Company out of Buffalo NY. This machine is an example of one, I have one a little different than this one. Nice machine, and yes, there were Symphonola records. I don't believe this is related to company in Canada.

Sean

Oh wow. That's really cool. The Larkin Company was a giant in the mail-order business up until the 1940s.

Garret

[victorIIvictor]

A Symphonola phonograph here:

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... la&start=0

And another:

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... ola#p19069

A Symphonola record and sleeve here:

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... la#p148175

More record sleeves here:

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... la#p138417

TMF member John M with some good background on the Larkin Company

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... ola#p59093

Bill, could you correct the spelling in your subject line?

Best wishes, Mark