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Rediscovered Erotic Gramophone?

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 10:42 am
by startgroove

Re: Rediscovered Erotic Gramophone?

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 10:44 am
by Henry
The original pornograph....

Re: Rediscovered Erotic Gramophone?

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 10:48 am
by soundgen
:lol: The first crapaphone!

Re: Rediscovered Erotic Gramophone?

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 11:02 am
by Curt A
His Mistress' Voice...

Re: Rediscovered Erotic Gramophone?

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 2:17 pm
by CharliePhono
Now, that is what I would call a true tone-arm <rim shot>.

Re: Rediscovered Erotic Gramophone?

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 5:46 pm
by Inigo
Picasso involved in crapophones making... Wooow!

Re: Rediscovered Erotic Gramophone?

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 5:47 pm
by Sidewinder
The phonograph part is a Pathé 6...

Now worth a bucket-load of cash in this "pimped" state.

Re: Rediscovered Erotic Gramophone?

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 8:34 pm
by Frisco The Beagle
Went missing after 1938, then "...found in a warehouse on the outskirts of Paris..."
Apparently not even the Nazis wanted it.

Re: Rediscovered Erotic Gramophone?

Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 7:15 am
by CarlosV
Sidewinder wrote:The phonograph part is a Pathé 6...

Now worth a bucket-load of cash in this "pimped" state.
I also thought it was a Pathé but it appears to have a speed control on the top, which does not match. These Pathés normally have speed control on the side, and their cheaper brand Omnibus had a different type of control. But being Pathé, it is possible ...

Re: Rediscovered Erotic Gramophone?

Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 2:46 pm
by Sidewinder
As you can see from the electric cable, the motor is replaced so that may be the controller for an electric motor - presumably the artwork has some moving parts. Turntable also not Pathé. For reference a Pathé 6