Weird Ebay listing, German Transitional??

[winsleydale]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-German-Ele ... 2518.l4276

What in the world do we have here??

[phonogfp]

I don't know, but I like the trademark!

George P.

[US PHONO]

Electromophon was a company based in Stuttgart-Vaihingen in Germany. It was founded by Albert Ebner (1891-1956), who was a pioneer in construction of electric motors for disc machines, the first model was already a cabinet machine, in 1919. Usually just the motor was electric with the rest acoustic. Tone arm usually in wood.

[Uncle Vanya]

That's what we have here. The machine, which is in reasonable shape, sat in a local antique mall for a coupled years before the dealer moved across the border. A curiosity? Certainly. A rarity? Perhaps. A museum piece? I think not!

[epigramophone]

Worth buying for the lid transfer alone which was probably inspired by Josephine Baker, only in this case there are no bananas .

The Ebner name survived into the vinyl era with the Rex Perpetuum-Ebner 4-speed autochange deck, which had an automatic sizing mechanism for 7", 10" and 12" records, plus a single play spindle option.

[De Soto Frank]

That Aluminum case at the business-end of the tapering=arm looks to be a transducer / horn-driver, to play the radio through the phonograph horn... the two sockets on the rim look to be binding-posts to attach the "tipped" leads from the audio-output stage of the radio.

So, you get a lady dancing topless, a vintage bulb with a squirrel-cage filament, but no sound-boxt to play records.

Since this is a German machine, would it have been built to run on 220 V power ?


This has been available for a couple of years now...