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Blue cygnet horns ?
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mjbarnes
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Blue cygnet horns ?
Around 1972 in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, I saw a Home D (or later) with an O reproducer and a blue cygnet horn. The machine seemed immaculately original. Is it possible that horn was blue from the factory? Where is that machine now? Cheers, all!
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gramophoneshane
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Re: Blue cygnet horns ?
Blue horns (and other colours) are more common than you'd think, particularly here in Australia where a choice of colours was offered.
Probably once sales started to decline for open horn models in USA, they offered different colours to help sell exported machines.
Over here we also got red and green cygnets, and they all included the appropriate horn decal from the factory.
Probably once sales started to decline for open horn models in USA, they offered different colours to help sell exported machines.
Over here we also got red and green cygnets, and they all included the appropriate horn decal from the factory.
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JohnM
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Re: Blue cygnet horns ?
Export horns were blue. More common in Australia.
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Re: Blue cygnet horns ?
Just in case anyone is wondering where Salmon Arm, BC is (I was)... it is in the middle of nowhere, halfway between Calgary and Vancouver...
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"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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mjbarnes
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Re: Blue cygnet horns ?
Geographical knowledge on this forum is astounding! That is why I did not elaborate. Or else everybody is using Google Maps and pretending they know . . . !Curt A wrote:Just in case anyone is wondering where Salmon Arm, BC is (I was)... it is in the middle of nowhere, halfway between Calgary and Vancouver...