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Folks,

Here is a really, really hard to find set up for a Victor front mount phonograph. It is an extended arm set up, including the extension, tone arm, and correct horn. The horn is approximately 27inches, takes a leather elbow, and never had a hanger on it. It is a correct horn for this set up, and came with it. The tone arm is approximately 20 ½ inches. It has the correct oversized horn bail.

Nice original finish on all surfaces, with really good nickeling.

I believe this would work on a Monarch, or MS, possibly even a Monarch Jr. I have none of those machines to test this out, so please make your own measurements.

Here is a great chance to really dress up your machine, and have something that few other collectors have!!! SOLD. It can be shipped at the owners expense, or delivered to Wayne or Stanton's in the fall.

Please contact me at [email protected] with interest.

Nice!!! This would be a great upgrade on a Victor front mount machine!!!

With the front mount machines the larger the horn the more weight there was on the record.edisonplayer

Great set-up Shawn- and a good price-- Very tough to find.

Here's a pic of mine on a Victor M-- (since sold) Wish I had a better pic of the tonearm-- Those extended arms make a beautiful set-up.

Brad Abell

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Please correct me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t the horn be a Victor horn? Was this option for just the arm extension and you used whatever horn you had? Very nice addition to a machine!

Joe

edisonplayer wrote: Tue Sep 16, 2025 8:50 am With the front mount machines the larger the horn the more weight there was on the record.edisonplayer

That depends on the length of the support arm. A longer horn needs a longer arm. Using a longer horn on an arm meant for a short one would actually reduce the weight of the needle on the record, since more of the horn’s mass would be in front of the pivot/fulcrum.
I have, somewhere, an old Victor or Berliner (I forget which, at the moment) catalogue reprint that shows several longer-than-original horns and the longer support arms and traveling arms to go with.
Important to get all the right bits together.
Tom

Tom,
I would love to see that reprint catalog. Here is my extended arm Victor MS models. The one with the single double hump tone arm support is the only one I have come across in over 40 years of collecting. The horn has to be aluminum because of the weight. What Shawn is offering is a great upgrade to your Victor.
Ken

Very nice machines, Ken. I do like the early, front-mounts, especially with optional big horns. They look a bit cartoonish to me, which is a good thing.
I found my catalogues. They were reprinted in the early 1970s by Allen Koenigsburg.
Here are some pages, relevant to the topic of discussion here. This first set from a Berliner catalogue.