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I have an interest in having a wood cabinet tabletop Electrola. I like the electric horseshoe pick ups. Did Victor ever make a tabletop that used the horseshoe magnetic pick-up?

I could be wrong, but I believe only the demo units used in dealer stores, and they aren't easy to find.

Yup. There's a counter demonstrator for sale at the Schlick auction tomorrow. Good luck.

Garret

The electronics to power a loudspeaker were too bulky in the first 3 years of electric phonographs to allow for a table-top version. The demonstrator mentioned above had no electronics, the power of the horseshoe magnet pickup was enough to power simple headphones.

Did Victor ever make a tabletop that used the horseshoe magnetic pick-up?

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Joe

Garret wrote:Yup. There's a counter demonstrator for sale at the Schlick auction tomorrow. Good luck.

Garret

I've inspected the above-mentioned machine at the auction site. It does not have its original electric pickup. It has instead a late orthophonic reproducer. This is also indicated in the catalogue.

Bob

While not a strictly Victor product, this used the horseshoe pick-up and tonearm of the very early 1930s RCA Victor sets, marked for the GE line in this case. This neat little thing was housed in an end table with the top that slid aside for access. You still needed to plug this into a nearby radio to hear the records, but this gave the purchaser the Electrola option without the expense of buying a combination radio-Electrola set. This was from a recent eBay listing that went unsold, and I am not the seller.