What is your ugliest machine?

[soundgen]

That is an Echo-Tone, marketed with little success in 1908. It was advertised in Talking Machine World, but the ads kept getting smaller until they finally disappeared.[/quote]
Thanks for identifying it, I really like it... Probably a needle in a haystack to find one. It's an interesting variation of a Cygnet horn, without a crane being necessary...[/quote]

A Pathé machine working on much the same principle is on eBay at the moment (and has been for some time).[/quote]

looks remotored ( no stop start lever ) soundbox is dubious and the steel needle will trash the Pathé disc , can't find it on Ebay either 1

[Bruce]

Schweg re: your HMV Model V

Your right about beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I repaired an HMV just like yours for a young couple who emigrated for eastern Europe a couple of years ago. Their HMV was a prized family possession.
His great grandparents bought their HMV just before WWI only to flee east from the advancing Germans and then west again from the Russians in WWII. This gramophone (minus the horn) along with a coffee urn was all they escaped with so it holds great family value.

Besides with a matching wood horn it looks very nice to my eyes.

Bruce

[CarlosV]

The ugliest machine I have is also acoustically the best one, and the most conspicuous: an elephantine EMG mark 10, which I play almost every day. Its case is not that bad, quite stern and boxy but very well finished with a nice veneer, but the enormous dark horn is not exactly pleasing to the eyes.

[Orchorsol]

The ugliest machine I have is also acoustically the best one, and the most conspicuous: an elephantine EMG mark 10, which I play almost every day. Its case is not that bad, quite stern and boxy but very well finished with a nice veneer, but the enormous dark horn is not exactly pleasing to the eyes.

Hahaha, I was waiting for someone to say that, Carlos... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - I think they're majestic and beautiful, but they're definitely not everyone's cup of tea!

[schweg]

Bruce- that is a special story, Thanks for sharing. I wish I had background on the one I have but it's just another auction purchase.

[drh]

That is an Echo-Tone, marketed with little success in 1908. It was advertised in Talking Machine World, but the ads kept getting smaller until they finally disappeared.

Thanks for identifying it, I really like it... Probably a needle in a haystack to find one. It's an interesting variation of a Cygnet horn, without a crane being necessary...[/quote]

A Pathé machine working on much the same principle is on eBay at the moment (and has been for some time).[/quote]

looks remotored ( no stop start lever ) soundbox is dubious and the steel needle will trash the Pathé disc , can't find it on Ebay either 1[/quote]

It's here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Gramophone-pho ... SwW2tea8K8

Wasn't worried about things like the motor or sound box but rather with the "horn" system, which is the same sort of re-entrant reflector design as the Echo-Tone, albeit integrated into a hinged lid rather than stuck up by itself on permanent display.