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Columbia Grafonola Identification
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Columbia Grafonola Identification
I have no idea how the columbia naming scheme works, so does anybody know what model grafonola this is?
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Re: Columbia Grafonola Identification
That's a "Mignonette." Looks nice!
George P.
Edited for accuracy.
George P.
Edited for accuracy.
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Re: Columbia Grafonola Identification
Love that model in oak... nice. 
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Re: Columbia Grafonola Identification
That’s a gorgeous nonpareil!
Are you getting it?
David
Are you getting it?
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Re: Columbia Grafonola Identification
These are the nonpareils I remember as a kid at the theater... 
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Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Re: Columbia Grafonola Identification
George, how can one tell the difference between that and a Mignonette?
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Re: Columbia Grafonola Identification
Omigosh - - I certainly had a brain fart! It is a Mignonette - - and that's what I meant to type, but somehow I came up with another French word!eighteenbelow wrote:George, how can one tell the difference between that and a Mignonette?
My sincere apologies - - the machine is indeed a Mignonette. I had one for many years, and it beat the doors off any Victrola I ever owned.
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Re: Columbia Grafonola Identification
Again - my apologies for the misattribution.
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Re: Columbia Grafonola Identification
Well, that's an intriguing statement! Can you please elaborate, George?phonogfp wrote:..the machine is indeed a Mignonette. I had one for many years, and it beat the doors off any Victrola I ever owned.