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stumbled onto this the other day,just a picture.
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:01 pm
by STARR-OLA
I found this on the bottom of a box full of edison dd,s,i thought i saw everything by now but this picture stumped me!
.anybody?
Re: stumbled onto this the other day,just a picture.
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:21 pm
by Wolfe
Oh, they don't make crapophones the way they used to. What a beauty.
Though it still pales in comparison to the ever luminous Vera Lynn.
Re: stumbled onto this the other day,just a picture.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 3:38 pm
by epigramophone
The machine may not be 100% original, but are you sure it is a Crapophone?
The "plumbing" between the tonearm and the horn appears identical to that on a German machine Picture 1-108 in "Antique Phonograph Accessories and Contraptions", whilst the straight tonearm with adapter looks as though it might be by Pathé.
Re: stumbled onto this the other day,just a picture.
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:22 am
by Sidewinder
The base is original, as is the horn. The horn looks like what Symphonion used to use on their coin op disc players - but there were also other manufacturere of this horn style. So it could be right rather than a horn and base married at some later stage. My bet is that it is a German manufactured machine.
If I saw it at market, I would grab it at the right price
/lsm
Re: stumbled onto this the other day,just a picture.
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 7:06 pm
by mrphonograph
this horn pops up on auctions now and then allways on markless machines so maker unknown i dubbed this type of horn the horn of pleny since the mythical horn in 18th century depictions always has this type of loop on it
- unk horn of plenty shape green horn.jpg (55.95 KiB) Viewed 1373 times
- unk horn of plenty shape nickle horn.jpg (6.16 KiB) Viewed 1373 times
another machine with a simular shape is the trombophon
- trombophon brass horn.jpg (15.79 KiB) Viewed 1373 times
but it can go even stranger
- unk glass case strange horn suport ornate green horn.jpg (30.23 KiB) Viewed 1373 times
- unk swiss doubble twist horn.jpg (11.34 KiB) Viewed 1373 times
- unk swiss cygnet horn.jpg (9.57 KiB) Viewed 1373 times
the last one has a mammut or parlophone coin-up kind of air to it
greetings
tino