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

What in the world do we have here??

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

George P.

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.

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!

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.

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...