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Columbia Symphony Grand

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“On This Day in the History of Recorded Sound…”

June 7, 1907: Walter Eckhardt filed for a U.S. Utility patent for a “Cabinet for Talking Machines.” This would become Columbia’s first internal-horn machine (thereafter called a Grafonola), the “Symphony Grand.” This first Grafonola was in the style of an upright piano. Columbia pioneered the disguising of talking machines as tables and upright/baby grand pianos.

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