The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

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

July 3, 1906: Walter Pitts was granted a U.S. design patent (No. 38,113) for a “Cabinet for Talking Machines.” This would become the first production cabinet used for the Victor-Victrola (the “Pooley cabinet,” termed for the furniture company that first manufactured it).

#antiquephonographsociety #phonograph #gramophone #antique

You can really see the influence the music box had in its design. Being somewhat based on a disc music box on top of a disc storage cabinet. I like it, but I still prefer the piano idea that Columbia had with the Symphony Grand.

The design, if one can call it that, of the Pooley Victrola could best be described as unfortunate.
It's British contemporary, the G&T Gramophone Grand, was and remains a design classic :

[quote=Benjamin_L post_id=360972 time=1751544102 user_id=22600]
You can really see the influence the music box had in its design. Being somewhat based on a disc music box on top of a disc storage cabinet.
[/quote]

Polyphon music boxes were also the inspiration for the various cabinets of the Orpheus automatic gramophones, first demonstrated at the Leipzig autumn fair in August 1898.