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phonolamplighter wrote:Congratulations on your new machine.

The brief amount of information we have on "Violinola" is: Violinola Phonograph Co., Port Huron, Michigan, and a slogan of "As Sweet as a Violin"
Matches the list pretty close, thanks for the list!

Our "ola's": Masterola, Mutrola, Modernola, Magnola, Vitanola, and of course, Victrola

This one is the Violinola Talking Machine Co. of Brooklyn, so I think it is another machine with the same name.
The plate looks to have been hand stamped with a letter punch set- which had a few punches that didn't match.

Following up on OrthoSean'a post in re: the tone arm, that sure looks the spitting image of the taper tube and bracket on my VV-XI-G. The sound box is non-Victor, though, and note the angle of the goose neck. It should be parallel to the turntable surface.

phonolamplighter wrote:Congratulations on your new machine.

The brief amount of information we have on "Violinola" is: Violinola Phonograph Co., Port Huron, Michigan, and a slogan of "As Sweet as a Violin"
Matches the list pretty close, but not the N.Y. company,thanks for the list!

Our "ola's": Masterola, Mutrola, Modernola, Magnola, Vitanola, and of course, Victrola

Man, you must have them all ola the place. Bill k

Here are some new photos.

It certainly looks as if someone had substituted a Victrola tone arm for a missing or damaged original. The Sonora soundbox was probably lying around at hand.

Bill

dutchman wrote:

phonolamplighter wrote:Congratulations on your new machine.

The brief amount of information we have on "Violinola" is: Violinola Phonograph Co., Port Huron, Michigan, and a slogan of "As Sweet as a Violin"
Matches the list pretty close, but not the N.Y. company,thanks for the list!

Our "ola's": Masterola, Mutrola, Modernola, Magnola, Vitanola, and of course, Victrola

Man, you must have them all ola the place. Bill k

^ this is great.

Lucius1958 wrote:It certainly looks as if someone had substituted a Victrola tone arm for a missing or damaged original. The Sonora soundbox was probably lying around at hand.

Bill

Im confused as to why there is a piece of paper jammed under the speed arm.

Lots of people do that for coarse adjustment. I am picky so I wind the motors all the way down and move the governor end bearings a little bit one way or another--usually this helps with that, giving my speed knobs better adjustment in the 60-110 RPM range.

Some older machines have been tampered with and don't have the original specs--it takes moving the governor to make them original again to the point where no paper is required.

The Violinola has a strange name but is a cool phonograph!

FWIW, that is a Heinneman motor...

GlensterTX wrote:FWIW, that is a Heinneman motor...

and the original arm was probably from Heinneman.