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emgcr wrote: Tue Jan 09, 2024 6:36 pm I do have videos of what the gramophone now sounds like following the brilliant restoration. However the restorer, who is also the owner, is a very private individual and may not like publication so I cannot share I am afraid. Rest assured that the performance is now dramatically enhanced from that heard in the Holkham Hall video. The latter recording is very misleading indeed as so many of the frequencies were obviously missing although this is not well demonstrated via YouTube. One can say that the performance today is very good indeed and that the design is most impressive to have performed as well as it did with the bats in situ !

The acoustic output of HMV 202/203 re-entrant gramophones is analogous to the output from this trapezoidal horn in as much as the sound is "diffused" rather than "concentrated" as in the case of the output from EMG/Expert gramophones. Different types of magic are achieved.........

epigramophone wrote: Wed Jan 10, 2024 4:16 am I have always wondered whether the late George Overstall, who I never met, was influenced by the shape of the Fitzpatrick horn when he built his own machine. Having passed between several custodians in recent years, it is now in the bat free care of a friend and forum member who lives near me. Since this photo was taken, a matching base has been custom made for it.