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Not mine but it's the first orthophonic Meteor I've seen.

http://chattanooga.craigslist.org/atd/4961346712.html

Wow... that tone-arm looks like something out of Dr. Seuss !

That's at an antique store in Chattanooga. I actually saw that in person and spoke to the seller. It has a reproducer with it but it's a Victor reproducer if I remember correctly.

The machine would have originally been fitted with an Oro-Tone reproducer. If you think that the tone arm is funny, you should see the horn! It is made of vulcanized rubber, and shaped like a bubble pipe with a rectangular mouth. The horn runs to the bottom of the cabinet and then up again. These machines can play quite well.

The machine would have originally been fitted with an Oro-Tone reproducer. If you think that the tone arm is funny, you should see the horn! It is made of vulcanized rubber, and shaped like a bubble pipe with a rectangular mouth. The horn runs to the bottom of the cabinet and then up again. These machines can play quite well.

Uncle Vanya wrote:The machine would have originally been fitted with an Oro-Tone reproducer. If you think that the tone arm is funny, you should see the horn! It is made of vulcanized rubber, and shaped like a bubble pipe with a rectangular mouth. The horn runs to the bottom of the cabinet and then up again. These machines can play quite well.

So it DOES have a saxophone type horn- that is more sophisticated than I'd thought.
Oro-Tone reproducers seem to suffer from pot metal issues worse than Victor.