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Spotted both of these today. I assume they are recreations by their owners.
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http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/337 ... phonograph
Two home made machines
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miker2001
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Curt A
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Re: Two home made machines
Both are "re-creations", but the second one is actually dangerous to records as it is shown... 
"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
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Curt A
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Re: Two home made machines
That second "machine" may have been responsible for the loss of a bunch of Paramounts and Black Patti's... 
"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
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TinfoilPhono
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Re: Two home made machines
On the first one it looks like the horn was made from a 1920s Japanese kazoo with the mouthpiece cut off and then fitted to a plumbing elbow.
I have a 'horn' just like it. I cut off the noisemaker, lightly hand-polished the horn and sprayed it with gold lacquer, and mounted a piece of rubber to the end so it won't scratch the mouthpiece of a tinfoil phonograph. It makes a great hand-held amplifying horn for making and playing tinfoil recordings. Perfect dimensions and suitably antique look, and it cost almost nothing.
The second horn looks like one of Karl Frick's nasty creations of the 60s or 70s.
I have a 'horn' just like it. I cut off the noisemaker, lightly hand-polished the horn and sprayed it with gold lacquer, and mounted a piece of rubber to the end so it won't scratch the mouthpiece of a tinfoil phonograph. It makes a great hand-held amplifying horn for making and playing tinfoil recordings. Perfect dimensions and suitably antique look, and it cost almost nothing.
The second horn looks like one of Karl Frick's nasty creations of the 60s or 70s.