The Pocket Gramophone March 19, 2007
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It’s easy to think that the Walkman began the whole portable music craze but back in 1924, some crazy Swiss guys built this portable gramophone.
Taking all that watch ingenuity, the Vadasz brothers built the Mikiphone, a fully working pocket gramophone which, when folded up, was no bigger than a large pocket watch or, a ‘small cheese case’. When closed, it measured just 4.5ins wide by 2ins thick.
It could play records up to 10ins wide and sound came, not from the familiar gramophone horn, but from a resonator mounted on the tone-arm. Visit the site here and listen to some samples of what the sound was like. -Martin Lynch
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and lest we ForGet_ eh,eh, Mister Freud,
we got
yes yes yes yes oui oui oui Molly on the phone panting away
atthe Ulysses (You Yes Lease) gramaphone gramaphone me phone m e phone m e
ulysses-gramaphone-here-say-yes as Joyce re_presented
by Mark Kaplan of
dear
charlottestreet
nor ought we forgot
the truly
'charmante'
virtual gramaphone
at that OutDoOr link
to Canada's heritagegrammarphones and phonagramms.
Love thy gram
a
phone
you.
