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Any of this original ?
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 9:35 am
by soundgen
Re: Any of this original ?
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 4:59 pm
by Curt A
It's probably all "original"... The question is: Original to what? It looks like a homemade Berliner replica...
Re: Any of this original ?
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 5:30 pm
by bfinan11
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...
Re: Any of this original ?
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 9:25 am
by stevel
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'd certainly expect so , there was a great appetite for DIY back in the day.
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.
Steve