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Finally got around to putting together a page on the Seymour Superphone.
https://www.gramophonemuseum.com/seymou ... phone.html

Thanks to David Evans for the pictures.

Well done Chunny. Seymour was indeed a giant of the industry and very much unsung. Thank you for your sterling efforts in adding his story to your wonderful museum and, in particular, your generosity in making "The reproduction of sound" available for free. Hitherto this has been a very rare publication commanding a considerable sum of money. It is essential reading for all serious students of the history and development of the gramophone.

Thank you Graham for putting me in touch with David Evans. Good to see the Superphone in good hands.
I find the back stories to some of my hero's quite fascinating. Who would have thought that Henry Seymour was a anarchist in the true sense of the word or that the great man of science, Percy Wilson was a Spiritualism, trying to communicate with the dead.


BTW, The Reproduction of Sound by Seymour is readily available at The Archive.
https://archive.org/details/TheReproduc ... d_HSeymour