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FOUND: Wanted: Columbia Early Type AH Horn
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 7:19 pm
by Adam_G
I'm in search of a classic witches-hat style horn for a 1902 Columbia Disc Graphophone AH Early Type. My machine didn't come with one, but after scaling an image of one from a period advertisement, I thought it would be 18" long. But then I found another advertisement and it specifically says that it's 22" long.

- This is the ad I found
- columbia graphophones ad _cropped.JPG (145.58 KiB) Viewed 1327 times
I've also seen past ebay auctions for these early type AH's with horns ranging in size from 19" to 23", so I guess any size horn in that range will do. I believe this puts the bell diameter at around 12 or 13" and the small end that goes into the elbow should be around 1-⅛" diameter. Looks something like this:
Anybody got one of those?
Re: WANTED: Columbia Early Type AH Horn
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 12:13 am
by outune
Hi Adam- PM sent-
Brad Abell
Re: WANTED: Columbia Early Type AH Horn
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 12:44 am
by outune
Hi again Adam- Another PM sent. Found something else you may need.
Brad Abell
Re: WANTED: Columbia Early Type AH Horn
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 10:00 am
by Jerry B.
Should the early AH have a leather elbow type horn or is the horn with a brass elbow correct? Jerry Blais
Re: WANTED: Columbia Early Type AH Horn
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 1:18 pm
by Phonofreak
The early AH machines had a leather elbow. These were the off center crank ones with the metal bed plate on top of the case. The center crank ones in the fancy case and later AH used the metal elbow. For this machine, the brass elbow is correct.
Harvey Kravitz
Re: WANTED: Columbia Early Type AH Horn
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:49 pm
by cweastlick
Piggy backing on Adam's post. I'm still looking for a motor for an early AH. Any hiding out there?
FOUND: Re: WANTED: Columbia Early Type AH Horn
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:13 pm
by Adam_G
Horn has been found! Thanks to Brad.