What Model (Columbia?) Is This?

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Garret
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What Model (Columbia?) Is This?

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Garret,

That is a Columbia Mignon, not a common machine.

https://www.intertique.com/ColumbiaMignonIDDemo.html

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The lid is gonna need some attention...

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Pic from the site...

I finally found a use for one of my high school Spanish class dialogs: El tocadiscos es descompuesto...
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"The phonograph† is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.

"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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El tocadiscos es descompuesto... Translation: The record player is broken...

I don't know why they thought that would be an important phrase to learn... every once in awhile I will repeat it to a Latino person and it usually is good for a laugh...
"The phonograph† is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.

"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Or, in the words of Stan Laurel, "The doodad is busted."

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