The original was raw silk cloth. Use organic dye.
On 04/24/2012 11:19 AM, William Zucca wrote:
Yes, this is helpful information for me too but I wonder what kind of cloth
is most like original. That are many nice, rich looking 1920s radio
speaker cloths available but other than that, I wouldn't have a clue what
to use. My Amberola 50 has some sort of faded ribbed paisley cloth on it
that surely wasn't original- or was it?
Green Mountain Bill
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:17 AM,<[email protected]> wrote:
Here is a very early Amberola Ad, depicting the seldom seen ill fated
"earliest style Rococo Grill" Amberola 1A Cabinet" that was made by Herzog.
Note there is no Grill Cloth shown.
http://www.atticpaper.com/proddetail.php?prod=1910-edison-amberola-ad
Bruce
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Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Amberola grills& cloth question
One quick and easy way to tell if the Amberola had a grille cloth or not
is to see if the horn is wood grained. The Amberola IA, IB, III, IV, V, IV,
VIII, and X series of Diamond Amberolas had wood grained horns so they did
not need to have grille cloth to disguise the internal horn. When the
Amberola 30, 50, 75, and later 60 and 80 came along it was determined that
a quickly glued in grille cloth would be less expensive than the wood
grained paint process. So you have an ugly black horn hidden behind the
cloth.
Along the way people have added grille cloth to the earlier Amberolas (to
keep the dust out) and taken the cloth out of the later ones (to let the
sound out); thus, there is confusion today.
I hope this helps,
Al Sefl
Edison Nut...
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