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Come
over here and we will take a look at it. This
old brass horn is for resonance when we play this old Edison phonograph.
Yes, that’s it in the
box
I’d say this horn is about three feet long, about twenty inches in diameter at the large end and tapers to three fourths of an inch where it fastens on to the needle assembly with a flexible rubber hose.
This box which houses the working parts of the old Edison is about ten inches wide, probably twelve or fourteen inches long and lets say ten high.
We’ll take the lid
off and see a horizontal polished cylinder about four and one-half inches long.
This cylinder is turned by a hand wound spring in the bottom part of the box. The records are also cylinder shaped about two and a half inches in diameter and fit snug on the cylinder. The machines turned on by a little lever, the needle placed on the record and we have music coming out of the big brass horn
When we tire of the Edison, Ma may read stories to us. We also play checkers and carom.