Vintage 1920's Stradivara Hand Crank Console Phonograph

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I just picked up a 1920's vintage Hand crank console style phonograph (or Gramophone, or talking machine, whatever you want to call it). It plays 78's. It came with about 50 records and is functional. It doesn't have a bellhorn; instead it has a beautiful curved parabolic looking horn in the center of it. The brass tonearm feeds the sound down a round tube into the horn. On either side of the horn is a cabinet for record storage, each with a door. It appears to be made of mahogany.

There isn't much information about these on the net. I guess post WW-I a lot of companies sprung up as the jazz revolution started. I found a website that listed 263 different companies that popped up after the war.

Most folks have heard of Victrola and Edison, but never of Stradivara, so I suppose it might be rare.

Do any of you know about this brand and / or are any of you into these?

I'll post a photo of it later...it is on its side right now as a support I had to re-glue is drying.

One more thing - have any of you who might have these had your Soundbox (AKA Needlehead, AKA the round part at teh end of the tonearm the needle goes into - like a modern cartridge sans the needle) rebuilt, and if so, did it improve the sound quality? It looks like the gentleman at phonophan.com rebuilds them for around $50 or so.

http://www.worldofgramophones.com/gramolist.html (Open in New Window)

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Topic - Vintage 1920's Stradivara Hand Crank Console Phonograph - DiMora Diamond 19:35:34 01/12/08 (3)

Hand Crank Console Phonograph - "improve the sound quality" [nt] - Mike Porper 17:36:17 11/21/13 (0)

RE: Vintage 1920's Stradivara Hand Crank Console Phonograph - kintyre695 04:35:06 11/13/13 (0)

RE: Vintage 1920's Stradivara Hand Crank Console Phonograph - glennandlynnda@comcast.net 20:54:11 11/11/13 (0)

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