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Here’s a Curious Modification
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 9:36 am
by VictorVV-X
Spied this on Facebook Marketplace. Very curious idea. It would be interesting to find out when it was done.
https://m.facebook.com/marketplace/item ... 782267991/
Re: Here’s a Curious Modification
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 10:01 am
by Curt A
"It would be interesting to find out when it was done."
Personally, I can't imagine anything "interesting" about it... POS...
Re: Here’s a Curious Modification
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 10:17 am
by OrthoFan
It could have been done at any time. From What I can see, they removed the original guts and substituted components from a Victrola Colony model --
- Victrola Colony.JPG (46.46 KiB) Viewed 1196 times
-- creating a "Franken-phone".
OrthoFan
Re: Here’s a Curious Modification
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 10:28 am
by Curt A
TAE would have been pleased... an "Edison-Victrola"...
or EdinOla...
Re: Here’s a Curious Modification
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:08 pm
by Zkeener323
That is an interesting modification. Somebody put a bit of thought into it. I'm guessing the Edison horn is still in place? Or maybe something else was cobbled together- or no horn at all! I'm not too familiar with Diamond Discs, but it appears it could be reversed with a little know-how.
Re: Here’s a Curious Modification
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:44 pm
by OrthoFan
Zkeener323 wrote:That is an interesting modification. Somebody put a bit of thought into it. I'm guessing the Edison horn is still in place? Or maybe something else was cobbled together- or no horn at all! I'm not too familiar with Diamond Discs, but it appears it could be reversed with a little know-how.
I don't think that the original horn, used in the Diamond Disc Phonograph, would have been used for this "retrofit." If it was, it would have had to have been substantially modified--with the narrow end of the horn cut away--since the "tone arm" portion" of the horn was firmly attached to the main horn, itself, as in this photo:
- Diamond Disc Model Horn.JPG (34.07 KiB) Viewed 1112 times
As you can see, the narrow portion of the horn protrudes above the motor-board. When the record was played, the entire horn/tonearm assembly moved across the record's surface via a feed-screw.
From what I can tell, the tonearm, sound box, motor and motor-board were all culled from a Colony. Since the grille in the Colony was attached to the front of the horn, via screws, I'd imagine it probably has the Colony's horn, which is a non-folded exponential horn--the same type used in the Consolette and early Granada models.
If that's the case, it will sound quite good, once the sound box is restored. But, again, it is totally inauthentic.
OrthoFan