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Repro or real?
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estott
- Victor Monarch
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Re: Repro or real?
One of the earlier crapophones - they have a slightly better quality of design and finish, such as the horn elbow, and look plausible at first glance. Still junk, and a good portable died to make this.
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mrphonograph
- Victor I
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Re: Repro or real?
in the end of the 90s i went in search of those boys in india i first came in conact with a dealer on a flea market who was selling these crappy things like hotcakes he told me he had bought them from a guy in berlin after i told him that i wasnt going to deal in these things he gave me the guys phone number
i called the guy up and after a long talk meant to win trust because i had the feeling i was delving deep into the crapophone mafia i got his trust and.. another telephone number
this time from a guy in istanbul turky well this was tricky i was now in non english speaking teratory how to go on ahead?
lucky for me the netherlands are full of turks and i have several turkish friends
so back to the phone my friend dialled the number and someone picked up the phone in the queen's english! this as it turned out was a old guy with a shop in a bazar in istanbul he was so use to dealing with people outside turky that he only awnsered te phone in english
this was truly a nice guy i din't need to convince him of anything and he gave me what i was looking for
he told me where these things came from and they come from a suburb of calcutta the complete name of the place is dum dum calcutta india
and i knew that place ive seen that place name on the back of colonial indian single sided hmv records thats where the indian hmv factory was..or rather still is!
to think that after a hundred years the hmv gramophone co factory is still active!
there where 2 gramophone factories in india one the gramophone co in dum dum calcutta the other the edison bell/columbia/primaphone factory in bombay
and im certain that one probably is as active today aswell as it was in 1913
thats why i always say the boys in dum dum calcutta india when i refer to the crapophone makers
the machine in the middle in above foto is a original primaphone from bombay so no crapophone this time
greetings
tino
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so back to the phone my friend dialled the number and someone picked up the phone in the queen's english! this as it turned out was a old guy with a shop in a bazar in istanbul he was so use to dealing with people outside turky that he only awnsered te phone in english
this was truly a nice guy i din't need to convince him of anything and he gave me what i was looking for
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and i knew that place ive seen that place name on the back of colonial indian single sided hmv records thats where the indian hmv factory was..or rather still is!
to think that after a hundred years the hmv gramophone co factory is still active!
there where 2 gramophone factories in india one the gramophone co in dum dum calcutta the other the edison bell/columbia/primaphone factory in bombay
and im certain that one probably is as active today aswell as it was in 1913
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greetings
tino