His Master's Voice Gramophone

Typewrter Typewrter His Master's Voice Gramphone Monarque Model No. 9 European Version Ca.1906-1907. Wooden case with beautiful vegetal decoration on the sides in darker wood. Undoubtedly, the beautiful apple green flower-shaped horn, so characteristic of the European models of the brand, stands out. This piece has excellent aesthetic and functional characteristics. It is in perfect working condition, with all original parts, overhauled and revised. It is a genuine piece, and not one of the increasingly common copies found in the market. It can be seen in the marks of use of the horn, that in some parts I have lost the paint. Also this model appears catalogued in the book "A world of Antique phonographs" in page 80. It attaches several records and needles. The gramophone will be a hard competitor of the phonograph when the German Emile Berliner invented it in 1887, a new reproducer device not based on the edisonian cylinder, but on that round surface despised by the father of the phonograph, developing the recording laterally, through the groove instead of up and down. Between the disc and the cylinder there would be a fierce struggle, which ends up winning the disc thanks to an aggressive advertising campaign that would make this format get more and more followers.The Monarch Model of the Victor Company began to be made in 1901, and there were many models with small variations between them. In the beginning they were sold for $40 and were specially designed for 10-inch records. The brand "His Master Voice" (HMV) is perfectly identifiable by the logo of the famous Nipper dog listening to a gramophone, although what many people do not know is that this logo was first designed for the phonograph, but eventually it would be changed. To be able to enjoy the beauty of a device like this and to be able to listen to the music of our ancestors is undoubtedly a dream. Measures: 55 cm in diameter and 65 cm long (horn); 31 X 31 X 16 cm (case).