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A while back there was a discussion on Graphophone CA's. Can some please point me to it as the search engine rejects "CA" as a search criteria.

thanks

How to search the board for small words:

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... ite+search

Thanks very much for the tip. However I get a ton of returns about "CA" = California, and Graphophone CA returns lots of graphophone related posts, but Graphophone CA, nothing? Maybe I was mistaken.

There was this short thread on a CA:

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... one#p94140


Chuck

Exactly. Thanks very much!

The C stood for "Commercial", as these earlier Graphophones with the 6" mandrel were meant primarily as dictation machines.

Bill

Lucius1958 wrote:The C stood for "Commercial", as these earlier Graphophones with the 6" mandrel were meant primarily as dictation machines.

Bill

I'm not sure that's quite accurate. When the Type C was introduced, it joined the Type A ("Columbia"), and the under-development-and-soon-to-be-released Type B ("Eagle"). The Type C was first marketed as the "Universal," and it's adaptability to either exhibition, home entertainment, or commercial use was touted. As talking machine exhibitions became less common around the turn of the 20th century, the emphasis gradually changed to the machine's commercial use.

The 1903 Columbia catalog still refers to the Type C as the "Universal," but the 1904 catalog calls it the "Commercial."

George P.

Fantastic machine!

phonogfp wrote:

Lucius1958 wrote:The C stood for "Commercial", as these earlier Graphophones with the 6" mandrel were meant primarily as dictation machines.

Bill

I'm not sure that's quite accurate. When the Type C was introduced, it joined the Type A ("Columbia"), and the under-development-and-soon-to-be-released Type B ("Eagle"). The Type C was first marketed as the "Universal," and it's adaptability to either exhibition, home entertainment, or commercial use was touted. As talking machine exhibitions became less common around the turn of the 20th century, the emphasis gradually changed to the machine's commercial use.

The 1903 Columbia catalog still refers to the Type C as the "Universal," but the 1904 catalog calls it the "Commercial."

George P.

Thank you.

Bill

Thanks for all the info. The advertising page is very helpful. Here a pic of the topworks before cleaning.