Auténtico or mierda-o-fono ?

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Starkton
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Re: Auténtico or mierda-o-fono ?

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tinovanderzwan wrote:
Starkton wrote: Deutsche Grammophon A.G. of Berlin had its own line of machines at least from 1902. In addition, some more elaborate cases, like the "Melba," were, until 1911, manufactured in Germany and exported to Great Britain.
unlike the russian, indian, french, and spanish machines the early d.g.a.g. machines where in the brittish catalogues
Though the British and German catalogues shared several models, a lot of types were unique to D.G.A.G. Try to find the Salon-Apparat "De Luxe" of 1908 in a British catalogue:

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Re: Auténtico or mierda-o-fono ?

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soundgen wrote:The Banus Banus family have made gramophones in Barcelona since the early 1900s , they were a Victor " Franchise" and assembled machines , they have never stopped making machines many put together with disparate parts , some even ending up in museums , this one with a 1920.s motor fitted to a metal box for instance
http://www.funjdiaz.net/gramofonos/ficha.cfm?id=64

They made quite nice modern horns which can be seen here

http://www.coleccionfb.com/firmas_catalanas_3.htm

The gramophone shown is undoubtedly a Banus Banus machine , the transfer on the front is from a horn not a machine , these transfers were available on Ebay

the transfer on the front is from a horn not a machine , these transfers were available on Ebay

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