Elegant HMV (His Master's Voice) Mantel Gramophone Model 109. 1925-1929.

Elegant Gramophone His master's voice, model 109, manufactured between 1925 and 1929. Nice mahogany box with excellent aesthetic characteristics. It is in perfect working condition, with all original parts. The engine is smooth and quiet, and is as the first day. Attached automatic brake and speed control. The two doors at the front are useful for some volume control, a feature that models like the 104 and 130 did not have. This is a genuine part, and not one of the increasingly common copies found on the market. This piece has the original logo, original paint and wood in excellent condition. It sounds great and has been serviced, so you will be able to listen to music from day one. Also attached are several discs and enough needles to make it work. As indicated on a small plaque this piece was supplied by was supplied by Bruce Moore at 109 York Road, West Hartlepool. The gramophone will be a hard competitor of the phonograph when the German Emile Berliner invented it in 1887. It was 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 would get more and more followers. The brand "His Master Voice" (HMV) is perfectly identifiable by the logo of the famous dog Nipper 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. In its May 1930 catalog the brand presents a wide repertoire of gramophones in which the external horns have already been eliminated and the models with excellent internal horns and what is more novel: the first electric devices have been incorporated. The fact of including the horn inside the machine itself gave the device a more compact and solid appearance. Genuine piece of great elegance, perfect to decorate a room according to its magnificence. Measures closed: 46 x 39 x 34 cms.