[Phono-L] Re: Edison Frankenphono on eBay...

[harvey kravitz]

Hi Gang, I had a look at the franken-phono. It really caught my attention. If this was an old conversion during the 1920's or the Depression, It is a true piece of Yankee ingenuity. It shows how frugal families were, waste not want not. I look at this piece as a true piece of folk Americana. we get so wrapped up in the perfect, mint machine, that we forget that there are some unusual machines that are one of a kind. There are some blatantly mismatched machine with hodge podge parts that look like junk. Who ever modified this machine, did it with thought. Harvey P. Kravitz

--- On Fri, 2/13/09, ClockworkHome at aol.com <ClockworkHome at aol.com> wrote:
From: ClockworkHome at aol.com <ClockworkHome at aol.com>
Subject: [Phono-L] Re: Edison Frankenphono on eBay...
To: phono-l at oldcrank.org
Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 1:26 AM

 
In a message dated 2/12/2009 5:30:16 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
ret.armysgt at yahoo.com writes:

Is it possible that it really works? The seller says it does.

Bill

I would bet it works just fine.  Orville White, a gifted machinist collector 
in Portland, Oregon, once saw an ad in a local paper for an "Emerson
Diamond 
Disk Victroler" (sic) and that gave him an idea.  He used a Graphophone
base, 
an Amberola V works, and an early radio cygnet horn to make the mutt.  It 
played very well and was a hoot to behold the reaction of collectors when first

encountering it.  I don't know where it went when he passed away but
someone got 
a real conversation piece.
 
Best Wishes to All,
 
Al
 
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