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Thanks to suggestions from other members and special thanks to Areg Gregorians for sending pics and a drawing, I have been able to construct a horn for my machine.

Since it is a handmade replacement, I took a few artistic liberties in its construction... I didn't want a plain black horn and I couldn't find good graphics for the basket weave Polly horn, so I decided a quarter sawn oak original would be the way to go... I found some wood photographs online and figured the necessary angles to replicate a wood type horn (still made from poster board). I have never been able to find a pic of a Parisian horn, so I made the OSCILLATOR decal from the original on the cover of the machine.

I also wanted a more durable horn, since the cardboard horns seemed to be a downfall for these machines, so when it was finished, I took it to Staples and had it heat laminated. Surprisingly, it all worked out well in the end and it plays great.

Nice. I've made plain green ones, but yours looks super!

Extremely nice looking and darned clever!

I to think it looks nice. However, it's just not original in design. I would still want to make a copy of an original or find one anyway.

Curt,

It looks wonderful !

Congratulations on finding a workable solution !



Frank

Very nice work, and handsomely made. Creativity trumps originality on this one.

My Polly Portable did not have an original oscillator so I settled for one made by AZ* that works very well, but it's not as stunning as your wood grained example.