Columbia on Parade
Mark Bowman Mark Bowman
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 Published On Jun 30, 2011

Here's a selection of Columbia record reproducers of the Graphopohone family, firstly the Colombia phonograph type AO which hit the market in 1902 priced at US$30. The 2 minute cylinder being played is an Edison example by the title of Hickory Bill, a southern states of America sketch with banjo.

The second machine is from the Graphonola range of instruments produced by Columbia, Graphonola being the designation given to Columbia Flat disk record re producers of the horn less variety. This model retailed at $45 in 1913 , here playing a Columbia issue record from 1932 titled "Columbia on Parade" . It introduces the recording artists of the day signed to the British Columbia label.

This machine having been built in Britain, it having the oil immersed totally enclosed speed governor (the USA machines did not have thistype rather a traditional open air type). Both the phonograph and the gramophone have triple spring motors, meaning each one could play 8 records on one wind.

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