Odd Tonearm on eBay

benjaminh · Post by **benjaminh** » Sat Oct 29, 2016 12:37 am

Anyone know what this came from? Looks orthophonic era: www.ebay.com/itm/142163632871

Post by **gramophone-georg** » Sat Oct 29, 2016 12:43 am

benjaminh wrote:Anyone know what this came from? Looks orthophonic era: http://www.ebay.com/itm/142163632871

Looks British- maybe Gilbert?

Post by **Phono48** » Sat Oct 29, 2016 5:25 am

Not a Gilbert, but very similar. In the UK, they are very often seen on fairly low quality cabinet machines.

Barry

Post by **epigramophone** » Sat Oct 29, 2016 8:58 am

It is a Novaphonic Mammoth, as illustrated in this supplier's catalogue. In the UK some keen amateurs built their own gramophone cabinets from plans and fitted them with bought in components such as this.

CDBPDX · Post by **CDBPDX** » Sat Oct 29, 2016 7:37 pm

It would be interesting to see if it actually improves sound reproduction or if it just looks cool.

Phototone · Post by **Phototone** » Wed Nov 02, 2016 12:54 pm

That tone arm is basically an extension of the horn. making the horn longer improves low-frequency response. Probably only a minute amount in this case.

estott · Post by **estott** » Wed Nov 02, 2016 5:52 pm

Phototone wrote:That tone arm is basically an extension of the horn. making the horn longer improves low-frequency response. Probably only a minute amount in this case.

Seems a bit like the HMV 109 table model where the horn takes a bend in the case to lengthen it

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