The First Victrola

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“On This Day in the History of Recorded Sound…”

July 3, 1906: Walter Pitts was granted a U.S. design patent (No. 38,113) for a “Cabinet for Talking Machines.” This would become the first production cabinet used for the Victor-Victrola (the “Pooley cabinet,” termed for the furniture company that first manufactured it).

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[Benjamin_L]

You can really see the influence the music box had in its design. Being somewhat based on a disc music box on top of a disc storage cabinet. I like it, but I still prefer the piano idea that Columbia had with the Symphony Grand.

[epigramophone]

The design, if one can call it that, of the Pooley Victrola could best be described as unfortunate.
It's British contemporary, the G&T Gramophone Grand, was and remains a design classic :

[Starkton]

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You can really see the influence the music box had in its design. Being somewhat based on a disc music box on top of a disc storage cabinet.
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Polyphon music boxes were also the inspiration for the various cabinets of the Orpheus automatic gramophones, first demonstrated at the Leipzig autumn fair in August 1898.