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Blue cygnet horns ?
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 10:38 pm
by mjbarnes
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!
Re: Blue cygnet horns ?
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2020 10:59 pm
by gramophoneshane
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.
Re: Blue cygnet horns ?
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:12 pm
by JohnM
Export horns were blue. More common in Australia.
Re: Blue cygnet horns ?
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2020 9:58 am
by Curt A
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...
Re: Blue cygnet horns ?
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2020 8:14 pm
by mjbarnes
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...
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 . . . !