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Can anyone out there identify what this is ?

Rich Gordon

Don’t know the make, but the thing on the side is an automatic needle changing device. You load it with needles and the lever ejects the used one and replaces with fresh. It may of may not be missing some sort of magazine/hopper.

It's a reproducer for a Gabel Automatic Entertainer. Looks like a 1916 version. I could use that. Russie

startgroove wrote:It's a reproducer for a Gabel Automatic Entertainer. Looks like a 1916 version. I could use that. Russie

That's very interesting to know. Was this one of Gabel's open horn models?

I used to own a hand crank acoustic Gabel Automatic Entertainer; but it had an electric motor to cycle the mechanism; but was spring wound to play the record with the horn enclosed inside the top of the case. Hard to tell it from the later all electric ones except for the large crank that was in the front. I never looked too closely at the reproducer; but mine had a large brass magazine that turned every cycle and dropped a new needle into the reproducer. The only thing I never found was the brass piece between the reproducer and the horn. Maybe someone on the forum purchased it from me years ago? Mark Roberts--Navarre, OH??