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A small, but new article with our site about the factories of the HMV in India, written in English and German: http://grammophon-platten.de/page.php?577


Also new, an article about the so called “colonial models”. Sorry – this time only in German, but – you may use the (crude) Google translator in the upper left corner.

http://grammophon-platten.de/page.php?578



PS: Hope in the right category, as this neither about European or British machines…

Thanks for posting this. Any snippet of information about the Colonial models is welcome.

Barry

Thanks, very interesting!

Following the Indian thread. Just acquired a really nice large book "The Wonder that was the Cylinder" by AN Sharma and Anukriti Sharma. Reasonable price but shipping while not super expensive was a bit of a challenge for DHL to get the bill right but in the end the book is simply wonderful. 300 Pages 12" X 12" in nice case. In English and the pictures are remarkable. Check it out using the title on any search engine.

You will not bee disappointed.

L Hawes-Seattle

Hi, Where did you get the book from?. I contacted someone in India, They gave me a quote and then I simply did not hear back from them. Very strange.

The book was reviewed in the current (Summer 2016) issue of the CLPGS magazine "For the Record". The price is quoted as 6000 Rupees, about £64 or $100 plus postage and packing. The ISBN number is 978-93-83999-04-0 and the contact email address given is [email protected].

ah!.. the dum dum calcutta hmv factory the place where (a lot) the crapophones come from today there is another former grammophone factory in bombay (primaphone) also producing crapo's today the crapo's used to come with real authentic parts but allas those times are no more

This book has nothing to do with later modern made phonographs. It is about early brown wax cylinders and those folks that produced early recorded sound in India. The photos are centered around a cache of printed material, cylinders and Edison/Columbia early machines in the back of an old store. Much like the Ray Phillips find in Mexico so many years ago.

Let's get away from the Crapophone run down re: India. We all know what is out there. Let's focus on the historical treasures found in this book.

Again, although the $100 indicates shipping included there may be another small charge of $10-$15 levied by DHL so be prepared for that just in case.

LH

tinovanderzwan wrote:ah!.. the dum dum calcutta hmv factory the place where (a lot) the crapophones come from today...

Hi Tino,

Crapophones had never been produced in the former HMV factory in Dum Dum
The assignee Saregama (More infos with Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saregama ) is still using the old HMV factory as recording studio and for Television.

^ IIRC, that picture of the HMV factory was published in this book: https://www.amazon.com/Indian-Talking-M ... 0996678506