Do you know this reproducer, part 2

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Thank you for sharing this information, Mike.
Great to learn something new on a lazy Sunday

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Melodia

of 99 Highbury Quadrant, London, N5

1922 Listed Exhibitor. Manufacturers of Quality Gramophones and Accessories, including the Ultone Sound Box, the Ultone Ball-bearing Arm, the Ultolite, the Ultostop, the Minster Sound Box, etc. (Stand No. B.17)

I've never seen an Ultone soundbox made by Melodia but The Gramophone said in 1923 when testing various gramophones

H.M.V ., 8; Orchorsol, 8. The great trouble with piano records is the banjo-like twang which is emphasised more on some instruments than on others. Th. No doue Orchorsol and the H.M.V. machines were the most successful in reducing i t bt by the use of other needles and soundboxes this twang could have been reduced still more, but i t did not enter into the scheme of these tests to try all possible combinations of machine, needle and sound-box. Any refcrences to combinations outside our present scheme are the result of previous unsystematic experimentation, a thing that often leads to happy discoveries. The editor in the course of trying over some old piano records hit on the combination of an Ultone sound-box with a Sympathetic Chromic needle, and we have been unable to discover anything else so good.