Is this for real? A hybrid? Or someone's homeade job?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:37 pm
I need the experts to tell me what's up with this. Is it some sort of crapophone?
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Re: Is this for real? A hybrid? Or someone's homeade job?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:43 pm
It's an all original early prototype electric Berliner, ca. 1899. Very rare.
Re: Is this for real? A hybrid? Or someone's homeade job?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:50 pm
Wolfe wrote:It's an all original early prototype electric Berliner, ca. 1899. Very rare.
George P.
Re: Is this for real? A hybrid? Or someone's homeade job?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:51 pm
novelty radio record player made by the GUILD company.
Re: Is this for real? A hybrid? Or someone's homeade job?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:01 pm
Really? A Berliner? Electric? Gosh, if that's the case I'll stop at nothing to acquire this rare item . . .
Thanks, people. So, made by Guild. When? In the 1960s?
Thanks, people. So, made by Guild. When? In the 1960s?
Re: Is this for real? A hybrid? Or someone's homeade job?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:35 pm
I see references of them from 1959. The company made radios depicting things such as grandfather clocks, crank telephones and other novelty designs.
Re: Is this for real? A hybrid? Or someone's homeade job?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:46 pm
They actually sound fairly okay.
Re: Is this for real? A hybrid? Or someone's homeade job?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 11:53 pm
There was a thread about this type of machine no too long ago. http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... ilit=guild
Interesting little machine, I watched a one youtube video with one playing and it really did not sound bad at all.
Matt
Interesting little machine, I watched a one youtube video with one playing and it really did not sound bad at all.
Matt
Re: Is this for real? A hybrid? Or someone's homeade job?
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 10:58 am
I remember seeing a Guild phono like that somewhere.A couple friends of mine had a Guild radio in their shop in the shape of a teapot.edisonplayer
Re: Is this for real? A hybrid? Or someone's homeade job?
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 11:04 am
I've got a floor-standing Guild stereo in the shape of a roll-top desk. It is really a nice piece, with a decent radio and amplifier, with push-pull 6BQ5 output tubes. They were built of a quality above the average stereo of the period, (circa 1959) but not up to component stereo gear.