[email protected] wrote: > >In a message dated 9/12/2005 1:34:36 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, >[email protected] writes: > >Hi > >Do you have the original patents? I recall that the inventor wanted the >wires to vibrate in harmonic frequency with the music that emanated from the >horn. > >Allen >www.phonobooks.com > > If that is true I'd say "What frequency?" Did they intend that you re-tune the strings for each record? I think it would be more annoying than musical- like hearing a metal horn "Ring" on certain notes. More likely it was a gimmick, like that phonograph that used a conch shell as a horn.
Now, going off the subject a bit, I once saw an early reed harmonium with wound resonating strings on a sound box over the reeds. It wasn't in working condition, but I suspect that they were an attempt to reinforce the bass octaves. With an organ it just might have worked. Eric Stott
