Hi Folks, Well I know about crapophones and frankenphones, but what is the story on some of these early indian horn phonographs.... I see transfers for Leophones etc...
Anyone know anything about early phonograph/gramophone production in India? Models? or are all Indian phonographs late model crapophones? It seems to be an unexplored side. Cheers, Mario From [email protected] Mon Oct 16 11:29:05 2006 From: [email protected] (George Glastris) Date: Sun Dec 24 13:11:57 2006 Subject: [Phono-L] What's the story on the original indian machines????? References: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <04d001c6f150$f740bad0$6e4e9...@none05vofc1vwp> Quite simple,there was a market for horn gramophones in India throughout the 1930s, and Swiss manufacturers like Paillard, as well as HMV who had a factory near Calcutta, continued to supply this market. That is why there were so many horn gramophones in India for people to import over here and especially in the UK in the 1970s, and as the supply ran out, the Indians developed their own replacements. In the early 1990s/late 1980s there was a small flood of these in the auction houses where I was working at the time (Christie's and Phillips') and some actually made respectable prices (in the low hundreds of pounds when name brand machines were making in the mid hundreds and upwards), but that didn't last long, especially as the supply of better quality and condition ones soon ended. Regards to all, George Glastris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mario Frazzetto" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 3:39 PM Subject: [Phono-L] What's the story on the original indian machines????? > Hi Folks, > > Well I know about crapophones and frankenphones, but what is the story on > some of these early indian horn phonographs.... I see transfers for > Leophones etc... > > Anyone know anything about early phonograph/gramophone production in > India? Models? or are all Indian phonographs late model crapophones? > It seems to be an unexplored side. > > Cheers, > Mario > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > > Support Phono-L > http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.4/476 - Release Date: 10/14/2006 > >
