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Has anyone seen a reproducer like this? Looks almost like a modified standard speaker but I can’t tell, similar setup to a standard speaker with a recording and reproducing stylus on the same bar but the opposite way around, has anyone seen one like it?

Mystery solved, not a modification but a very rare device indeed

Sweet!!!

This is so cool Alex-- you can literally turn on record or playback mode by just twisting it.

That'd be sweet installed on that new Home you found!

GREAT FIND!!!!! Congratulations!!! S. Levi

Glad I was able to solve your mystery.

Rich Gordon

rgordon939 wrote:Glad I was able to solve your mystery.

Rich Gordon

I think I would have been left scratching my head for a while otherwise!

Here is another Automatic reproducer variation that I never been able to find for sale. A Horsley Automatic made in Bayonne NJ, about 20 miles from me. The company also was involved in the motion picture industry.

Rich Gordon

I wonder what advantage this was supposed to have over the Standard Speaker?

- Bill

Lucius1958 wrote:I wonder what advantage this was supposed to have over the Standard Speaker?

- Bill

I can’t foresee any real advantage, perhaps it was a way to get around patents