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Oak VV-XVII Parts Cabinet on Craigslist Bend (Oregon)
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 10:08 am
by Jerry B.
Search in Bend Oregon craigslist for "Victrola" and you'll see most of a golden oak XVII cabinet. Jerry Blais
Re: Oak VV-XVII Parts Cabinet on Craigslist Bend (Oregon)
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 5:41 pm
by barnettrp21122
Wow, someone handy could make something of this!
Too bad the lid's gone.
Pictures for posterity:
Bob
Re: Oak VV-XVII Parts Cabinet on Craigslist Bend (Oregon)
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 5:55 pm
by schweg
I think it's an HMV Model 14. It's shown on pgs. 92-93 in His Masters Gramophone by Oakley and Proudfoot (2011). The decal gives it away.
Re: Oak VV-XVII Parts Cabinet on Craigslist Bend (Oregon)
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2017 6:45 pm
by gramophone-georg
schweg wrote:I think it's an HMV Model 14. It's shown on pgs. 92-93 in His Masters Gramophone by Oakley and Proudfoot (2011). The decal gives it away.
As does the arm.
Re: Oak VV-XVII Parts Cabinet on Craigslist Bend (Oregon)
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2017 7:58 am
by Garret
It's definitely an HMV.
Best,
Garret
Re: Oak VV-XVII Parts Cabinet on Craigslist Bend (Oregon)
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2017 9:53 am
by Jerry B.
My knowledge of HMV machines is very limited. Was this cabinet made in the US? Would parts like the doors, etc. be interchangeable with a VV-XVII? Jerry
Re: Oak VV-XVII Parts Cabinet on Craigslist Bend (Oregon)
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 10:53 am
by OrthoFan
schweg wrote:I think it's an HMV Model 14. It's shown on pgs. 92-93 in His Masters Gramophone by Oakley and Proudfoot (2011). The decal gives it away.
Based on the style of tonearm used--if original to the cabinet--this is probably the
HMV 201. Looking over "HMV Gramophones -- 1921-1936" by Barry Williamson, the same cabinet was used for the Model 14 as well as the electric motor version 15, in 1921. In the 1924 catalog, it appears as the 200. In 1926, it's identified as the model 201 and 211. The HMV 211, the electric version of the 201, is shown here in mahogany --
http://www.gramophones.info/gramophones.hmv.211.html
Unlike Victor, which produced a whole new line of Orthophonic models, following the introduction of electrical recording in 1925, the Gramophone Co. refitted some of its existing cabinet stock with new tone chambers. A gradually tapering (swan neck style) tonearm coupled with a No. 4 sound box was fitted to a very long saxophone shaped horn. The horn, itself, extended down into the record compartment, which was partially blocked off to accommodate the bend.
While not as powerful as the later Re-Entrant Gramophones--which were based on the Orthophonic Victrolas and introduced in 1927--these short lived "new style" gramophones did a very good job of reproducing the extended range of electrical recordings.
OrthoFan
Re: Oak VV-XVII Parts Cabinet on Craigslist Bend (Oregon)
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2017 7:52 pm
by CDBPDX
Looks like the motor for this is also available:
http://bend.craigslist.org/atq/5967700197.html