Small and cheap Cylinder machines
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2024 5:36 pm
What are a list of some of the smallest and or cheapest made cylinder machines made? Cheap can be both price and quality. Examples, Columbia Q, Rectorphone,ect
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Re: Small and cheap Cylinder machines
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2024 6:45 pm
Amet Echophone, first marketed in 1896 at $5 -- long before the Columbia B or Q. They were quickly sued out of existence by Columbia and the remaining phonographs were liquidated, mostly through premium offerings.
Re: Small and cheap Cylinder machines
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2024 7:13 pm
I think the Pathé 0 ("Democratique") would qualify:
Re: Small and cheap Cylinder machines
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2024 9:28 pm
There's also the 'Puck'... and the the 'Oratiograph' (iirc): hand-driven, with the stylus directly attached to a celluloid horn...
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Re: Small and cheap Cylinder machines
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 5:13 pm
Judging by that stylus I bet they sounded greatTinfoilPhono wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2024 6:45 pm Amet Echophone, first marketed in 1896 at $5 -- long before the Columbia B or Q. They were quickly sued out of existence by Columbia and the remaining phonographs were liquidated, mostly through premium offerings.
Re: Small and cheap Cylinder machines
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 5:14 pm
Pucks are cool! Never heard of a Oratiograph but now I am intrigued. Any videos of these playing?Lucius1958 wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2024 9:28 pm There's also the 'Puck'... and the the 'Oratiograph' (iirc): hand-driven, with the stylus directly attached to a celluloid horn...
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Re: Small and cheap Cylinder machines
Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2024 5:15 pm
That is a machine I always have loved/wanted
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