Horn gramophone
The gramophone with the large horn, which played flat discs instead of cylinders.
Emile Berliner patented the gramophone in 1887. Unlike Edison’s phonograph, which played cylinders, the gramophone played flat discs that could be pressed in large editions.
The sound was picked up by a diaphragm in the sound box and amplified by the horn. The horn gramophone became the musical furniture of the home around 1900, before the horn moved inside the cabinet in the 1910s.
Materials: Wood, brass, steel, sheet metal
Manufacture: Made by Berliner’s company and later by the Gramophone Company and Victor from the late 1890s.
The large horn that amplifies the sound without electricity.
The wooden box with the crank for the spring motor.
The sound box with the steel needle that follows the groove.