Featured some Phonographs

... continued from the above request https://www.antiquers.com/threads/worthpoint-request.83615/

Here is the fun portion of my collection.

I’ve added a smattering of records for scale.



The 16” record is a radio program and an early use 33 rpm recording. Some radio stations had a phonograph that could play these. I was not yet practical for home use. Here is the content of this c.1930 pre-school children’s program. https://www.radioechoes.com/?page=play_download&mode=play&dl_mp3folder=A&dl_file=air_castle_19xx-xx-xx_episode_187.mp3&dl_series=Air Castle&dl_title=Episode 187&dl_date=19xx.xx.xx&dl_size=2.76 MB

The 12” and 10” records are the common standard sizes when you see them. The 12” is an 1932 Picture Disc. You could have bought it at a Paul Whiteman performance. Here’s the content. https://www.google.com/search?q=pau...ate=ive&vld=cid:2dd7d9c6,vid:2PquaSZ0YYo,st:0

The 5.5” record is part of a combination record storybook called a Bubble Book, c.1920. Here is the typical content using a toy phonograph like mine. https://www.google.com/search?q=Bin...ate=ive&vld=cid:06241312,vid:wIg3i2p4YF0,st:0

The 3” record is part of a product-line sold to young teens, c.1950. It was regional to California and short lived.

With the exception of the green tin toy in the front, the other phonographs will play 12” and smaller 78 rpm records. They are portable and meant to perform as the larger home-based models do. These smaller portables are commonly referred to as a Cameraphones due to their resembling box and foldout cameras.

The phonographs are ...
(with available youtube links)

Mikiphone
https://www.google.com/search?q=mik...ate=ive&vld=cid:a9924ee5,vid:HsalqhwVsuw,st:0

Excelda
https://www.google.com/search?q=exc...ate=ive&vld=cid:50c91c5b,vid:WLE1E_qKQ60,st:0

Kameraphone (Arg! The needle should be placed on the right side, never the left side)
https://www.google.com/search?q=Kam...ate=ive&vld=cid:68070dc1,vid:sXK-KeLPc3M,st:0

Colibri
https://www.google.com/search?q=Cal...ate=ive&vld=cid:f88ab982,vid:HDfufrROAU0,st:0

I also have the commonly seen Talking Machines with and without the exterior horn, as well as Edison cylinder phonographs.

Hope you enjoyed this quick overview of what I enjoy.

 

Nice! I picked up a "Carry-Ola" at a yard sale for..... $10. Just needed the screw to hold the needle in place. How much was the screw? 10 DOLLARS, lol.

 

I used to have a 3-inch cardboard coated record on which UK forces used to record a private message to their mother or wife back in England during WWII.

 

I'd heard of the 16 inch discs before, but never saw one. When I was a little kid we had a record player with a 16 setting. Never knew what it was for. My parents sold it in the 70s to someone who wanted the case. It still worked.

 

That's a great price. You may be lucky and find a screw to fit from a hardware store, just do not try and force it to work! Show me a picture of the phonograph and another of the reproducer.

that was a very common thing to do. About 1930 they made coated cardboard records of popular songs and sold them at news stands. They were called Hit of the Week.

Record players made in the 1950's and the 1960's often had four speed settings, 78, 45, 33 and 16 rpm. The 78 position was for older records from the 20's to the 40's. The 45 and 33 positions were for respectively singles and LP's. The 16 rpm position was not used very often, mainly because it delivered poor sound quality. It doubled the playing time and was used for spoken-word records like plays and talking books.

 

Speaking of cardboard records...
As a child of the 1960s/70s, I remember records on the back of cereal boxes! You could cut them out and play them on a standard record player. I remember having the "Sugar Sugar" record by the Archies.

 

I remember those as well!

I actually bought the $10 screw and we have since used the player

 

That old phonograph beats the used $20 phonograph of today!

 

I remember the kiddie plastic records that had to be played with a quarter sitting on them to hold them down.

 

Amen!

 

Love the Paul Whiteman Pic Disk & the Pigmyphone graphics are awesome.Old Tech's beautiful and fascinating.

 

WOW!!

 

WELL, thank you, @Roaring20s!!! THAT was a whole pack of fun to read, watch and listen to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I don't think they ever made it as far as the UK.

 

I remember one from when I was a kid, but do not remember what the theme had been. Still very cool technology for us to use.

 

https://www.google.com/search?sca_e...QIHef6CxEQ0pQJegQICxAB&biw=1600&bih=748&dpr=1

 

Cereal box flexi-discs.The Monkees,Jackson 5 & The Beachboys-what,no Hendrix,Ozzie,Lou Reed or Zappa ?!

 

Here's a US version ...

 

I had a voice o graph plastic record of Mom & I ,, from around 1965 in NY City....

now...lost to time...

 

It's now in some phono-geek's collection.