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Half-original ("hybrid") gramophone: excellent (selected for myself) mechanism from Russian portable gramophone
with accurately handmade new box and horn.
All: 72.5×35.5×37 cm, 6.6 kg
Box: 27×35.5×37 cm, 5.6 kg
Horn: 53×48×48 cm, 1 kg
Label: "His Master's Voice. Victor"
Original: steel spring- and flyweight motor with starting handle, turntable covered with velvet, nickel-plated tone arm
with soundbox (with ribbed/soldered metallic diaphragm), speed control, manual brakes, needles.
New (handmade in 2000): carved beech wood box, cast consol, embossed copperhorn.
You can find new gramophones in other places, too. But: only few of them (most in Hungary) made with original mechanism
- usually not in good condition. (Excellent condition Russian portable gramophones were succesfully eliminated by me…)
Most of them fully new replica, mostly from India - and one of the gears was constructed erroneously… This gramophone
was manufactured especially for me. Mechanism is selected from hundreds: little, but strong - plays 2 sides with 1 winding.
Sound is nice, and because of big horn, loud. If you need, you can turn down the sound by raming something into horn.
(This is the original, fabrical solution for gramophones!)
Why excellent?
