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Yesterday I picken up an Edison Standard Model B with this horn on it. I know it's not for an Edison but not sure what it is. It looks like something found on a Pathé. Onto each have any idea?

Rich Gordon

Nice little horn and I'm sure it sounds great. Most likely a European horn, and your guess being a stray Pathé horn is the most plausible. However, I think the British Edison-Bell company actually sold those on Edison machines.

That looks like the same horn pictured in another
recent thread here of Ringo Starr posed by an Edison
machine.

I have one of those horns. Mine is a repro. Got it
at Union back in about 1982. Mine had the inside
diameter just a tiny bit too small to fit over an
Edison reproducer neck, so I carefully had to file
it out just a little to get it to fit.

It makes a nice quick way to listen to an Edison
machine. But I don't use it hardly at all ever any more.
I've gotten totally away from putting any overhanging weight onto the reproducer neck and carriage arm. I've come to the conclusion that that's a bad deal, and always
has been a bad deal. Never mind that Edison sold machines with witches hat horns as standard equipment.

That amount of overhanging weight puts undue stress
on everything and wears out the sliding bearings
of the carriage. Not good then or now. A larger
morning glory horn such as an Edison 10-panel type
hanging from a crane and coupled with the flexible hose
puts near zero stress on all of those parts, which is
an overall much better deal all around I think.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Chuck

Hi Rich
I remember buying a repro aluminium horn in the uk around the 70's when I started collecting. I fitted it to an Edison Gem. I have taken a photo, which also shows an original, which is most likely a Pathé. Hope this gives you a clue.
Kind Regards Brian

seeing the roughness of this little horn's surfage i am inclined to say that its a repro the originals always had a high glossy shine to the aluminium
there's a way to test this
is the rim of your horn overturned thus hollow or is it solid if its a solid rim than its a repro


tino

The rim is overturned.

Rich gordon