Reproduction Brass Horn Wind Up Gramophone 78 RPM

	£		90
	$		119

Please note if you are unable to pay cash and collect in person then please do not bid on this item. Thank you.

78 RPM Gramophone.

This is a reproduction the basic parts i.e. the wind up motor and the turntable come from what is known as a picnic set (I have a couple of them as well if you are interested) but the box, pickup and horn have been made in India. Those bits are shipped over here and the motor etc. is bunged in and hay presto one Brass Horned Gramophone.

All you need to do is stump up the cash and come and collect from me (just east of Derby off the A52 junction 25 of the M1) I will also supply some 78 RPM records so you can listen whilst everybody else has t0 live through the power cuts that may come in the near future (you supply the elbow grease)

http://youtu.be/NyVAiNVhxFI This can be seen working with this link to youtube. The horn shown is I was told is an old one and so comes with knocks and scratches associated with its age. I will give you the option of either one. Please note that this is not hi-fi, if it was it would have a wooden horn.

Cash on collection please, it must be local pick up as I would not know how to pack and anyway the records are a delicate.

Thanks for looking, if you've got this far then please have a quick look at the other things what I have put on eBay you never know you just might need a folding bike (sorry folding bike sold so heres a tune instead http://youtu.be/ObxZyClFf-Q )

Little bit from Wikipedia about:-

Shellac

Shellac 78s are brittle, and must be handled carefully. In the event of a 78 breaking, the pieces might remain loosely connected by the label and still be playable if the label holds them together, although there is a loud "pop" with each pass over the crack, and breaking of the stylus is likely.

Breakage was very common in the shellac era. In the 1934 John O'Hara novel, Appointment in Samarra, the protagonist "broke one of his most favorites, Whiteman's Lady of the Evening ... He wanted to cry but could not." A poignant moment in J. D. Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye occurs after the adolescent protagonist buys a record for his younger sister but drops it and "it broke into pieces ... I damn near cried, it made me feel so terrible." A sequence where a school teacher's collection of 78 rpm jazz records is smashed by a group of rebellious students is a key moment in the film Blackboard Jungle.

Another problem with shellac was that the size of the disks tended to be larger because it was limited to 80-100 groove walls per inch before the risk of groove collapse became too high, whereas vinyl could have up to 260 groove walls per inch.[43][44]

By the time World War II began, major labels were experimenting with laminated records. As stated above, and in several record advertisements of the period ``the materials that make for a quiet surface (shellacque) are notoriously weak and brittle. Conversely the materials that make for a strong disc (cardboard and other fiber products) are not those known for allowing a quiet noise-free surface.

Solution: (according to the same period-advertisements) put strength in the core (with a fibre centre) and quality on the surfaces (with some of the newly developed forms of shellacque). Because the noise floor on the disc was so much lower, this would allow a greater dynamic range to be recorded than could be accomplished on the old shellacque-only discs.[citation needed]