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Grammophone


Berliner, Emile, Washington 1887
Lender: Christian Wittmann, Wolfgraben (Austria)
HMV („His Master’s Voice“) Grammophone , Model 104
The Gramophone Company, London ca. 1930
47 x 41 x 33 cm, ca. 13.5 kg
Oak-veneer board, spring-drive with crank winder, swiveling tonearm with pickup, automatic drive switch, horn in the lower casing



The gramophone is equipped with a springdriven motor that is wound up with a crank. A lever is used to start the drive that operates the turntable. The shellac disk is “read” by a steel needle that transmits the lateral vibrations of the groove in the disk to a membrane in the pickup via a small lever. The tonearm then transmits the vibrations to the horn, where they are amplified. The groove on the disk runs in a spiral from the outside to the center and allows a recording of around three minutes.

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