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De Soto Frank wrote:That Orpheus is intriguing... especially the arm and reproducer - any idea where they sourced their hardware ?


There is a jarring aesthetic conflict between those curving pilasters and that... lid...

I'm afraid that I don't know. It looks like it's too long, though. And, yes . . . there is no sense of the proportion and harmony that characterizes the best of the A&C designs!

Here is an example of what Onken's 'Shop of the Crafters' line looks like.