Victor I (HMV) Gramophone with Wooden Trumpet, ca. 1905.

Magnificent Victor I Gramophone (His Master's Voice) from ca. 1905. Serial number 41452. Beautiful wooden box where you can perfectly appreciate the grain and the wonderful flower-shaped horn also made of wood. Piece of excellent aesthetic and functional characteristics, in perfect working order and with all the original parts. It has been overhauled and revised so you can listen to music from the first day. It is a genuine piece and in perfect condition, where all parts are original. It attaches several records and needles to enjoy its sound from the first day. The gramophone was invented by the German Emile Berliner in 1887, becoming a tough competitor of the phonograph that Edison had invented years before. It was a new reproducer device that used a disc made of zinc, covered with a beeswax and benzine on which it was subsequently recorded, instead of a cylinder. Between the disc and the cylinder there would be a hard fight that, although in the first years both formats shared the market, the disc would end up winning. The brand "His Master Voice" (HMV) is perfectly identifiable by the logo of the famous Nipper dog listening to a gramophone, a design that corresponded at first to the Phonograph. When Berliner's business started to go bad in the USA, his antique mechanic, Eldridge Johnson, took the initiative to found a new brand: the Victor Talking Machine Company, based in New Jersey and, since 1902, used the well-known logo, creating a real sales success. Wonderful device that besides decorating any room in the house, allows you to listen to antique music as if you were living in that era. Measurements: 40 cm diameter x 46 cm long (horn); 27 X 29 X 14 cm (box).