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Columbia Reproducer ID?
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:16 pm
by CDBPDX
I have a Columbia reproducer that I have not seen before. It brings to mind the early 'Concert' reproducer c.1912-1915. Is it a contemporary or cousin of that model?
Thanks! Cliff
Re: Columbia Reproducer ID?
Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2017 1:21 pm
by CDBPDX
It works very well. Hear it play on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P32LR2QnHbM
What it looked like when I got it.
Re: Columbia Reproducer ID?
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 8:30 pm
by CDBPDX
Can anyone tell me the approximate date this model reproducer was used? It has a mica diaphragm, I'm guessing early-mid 'teens??
Thanks! Cliff
Re: Columbia Reproducer ID?
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 2:17 am
by Lucius1958
At the moment I can't access it; but according to illustrations I have seen in Baumbach & Lackey's book, that reproducer is found on many Grafonolas from the early/mid 'teens.
Bill
Re: Columbia Reproducer ID?
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2017 3:19 am
by gramophone-georg
Lucius1958 wrote:At the moment I can't access it; but according to illustrations I have seen in Baumbach & Lackey's book, that reproducer is found on many Grafonolas from the early/mid 'teens.
Bill
It looks like the same reproducer that was on my ultra rare Columbia Europa that I sold years ago and wish I hadn't.
EDIT: Did a search, and dang- here it is on our little dining room table. I had fun restoring it as it was a basket case when I got it. It was a very late outside horn machine, with later parts on it than any others I could find on the WWW had, and I was able to save the original logo. Mixing the paint to match exactly was a real exercise too.
But there's your reproducer.
