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Really?
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 1:09 pm
by epigramophone
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271927263859? ... EBIDX%3AIT
Even by crapophone standards (no pun intended) this is an unholy alliance between "Edison" and "HMV".
Re: Really?
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 5:56 pm
by US PHONO
Diane & Ed's Antiques - Curios: possibly not been in business very long - at least I would expect a minimum of due diligence "Ed, lets google Edison Standard Phonograph to see what we have here"
Re: Really?
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 7:56 pm
by Curt A
For posterity...
Re: Really?
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 8:43 pm
by tinovanderzwan
must be made by a great great grandson of edison....and indeed that model is prety standard nowadays
tino
Re: Really?
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 9:33 pm
by Phonofreak
Didn't you guys know about the secret merger between Edison and HMV??? This was a well kept secret for 100 plus years. Now with this spectacular rarity the cat is out of the bag.
Harvey Kravitz
Re: Really?
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 10:08 pm
by Victrolaboy
"But this is a really good looking piece." That repro decal belongs on the back of a cereal box.
Re: Really?
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 6:32 am
by FloridaClay
Typical crapophone stuff out of India.
Clay
Re: Really?
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 11:08 am
by fran604g
Phonofreak wrote:Didn't you guys know about the secret merger between Edison and HMV??? This was a well kept secret for 100 plus years. Now with this spectacular rarity the cat is out of the bag.
Harvey Kravitz
This reminds me of a joke between myself and a friend recently, in which I wrote a purely conjectural response to an email
(as a joke):
"In 1908, just after Columbia (under the auspices of American Graphophone) merged with the yet-unknown future Edison company to be known as "The Ediphone Division" (founded in 1911), the first item tasked of them by the "old man" was to combine the Columbia Standard Dictaphone cylinder with the 4 minute Edison "wax" Amberola cylinder so that when the user recorded his or her words, the recording aparatus would automatically put them to music.
This development was a momentous and historically important one that eclipsed all other achievements by the two largest producers of this particular technology (the author is discounting the same idea that was simultaneously being developed for flat discs by the merging of Columbia-Victrola)"
HOWEVER, I never knew about the HMV/Edison merger! Had I, I would have included something about that too!
Jokingly yours,
Fran