What is is is a way to play an early battery tube radio thru the phonograph horn. You replace the phono reproducer with this and bingo, a large radio horn that sounds better than the small versions of the time and desn;t take up space. They are a cool collectible, made by many people. -Barry
ny victrolaman wrote: > So I was cleaning out some storage and came across what looks like a large > 1920s radio horn speaker driver, which I must have picked up someplace years > ago. It's about three inches in diameter, with a nine-foot cord, and it's > quite heavy for its size. (The driver itself tests very good.) On the top > it is embossed "Atwater Kent, Phila" and Type 5V. After doing some digging, > I found an old ad for it on that great AK website. The ad lists it as a > "Phonograph Attachment," but says nothing about what exactly that is, what > it does, and how exactly one would use it. I recall seeing some old ads > where something of this nature is sitting on a motorboard next to a > reproducer, but that tells me nothing. Does any out there know about these > things? Anyone own one, or is anyone looking for one? I'll be happy to > send you pictures if it'll help clear this up. Thanks in advance. > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
