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Any of this original ?
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Re: Any of this original ?
It's probably all "original"... The question is: Original to what? It looks like a homemade Berliner replica...
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"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
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Re: Any of this original ?
Of course this is most likely a modern, or at least extemporaneous, creation but was that something that people often did in the acoustic era, building their own machines? I know there were kits for cylinder phonographs in the 1890s but I'm not sure about discs...
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Re: Any of this original ?
I'd certainly expect so , there was a great appetite for DIY back in the day.bfinan11 wrote:Of course this is most likely a modern, or at least extemporaneous, creation but was that something that people often did in the acoustic era, building their own machines? I know there were kits for cylinder phonographs in the 1890s but I'm not sure about discs...
I have a set of 'The Amateur Mechanic' from 1914 describing conversions , i'd certainly expect there to have been something similar when the Gramophone was first invented.
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