Auxiliary dynamic speaker 200 for Orchestrope

Model 200 Capehart Auxiliary Dynamic Speaker
The ad for the model reads: "Designed and built primarily for hotels, clubs, lodges, restaurants and other business needing good music in different rooms or placess, all from one source, the CAPEHART AUTOMATIC ORCHESTROPE."

The Orchestrope:
The coin operated machine is capable of holding 28 records. There is no selection. It is a continuous play of the slack in place, all 56 sides. In those pioneering days, Capehart favored a changer that drags records across the mechanism, to get them to the turntable, and away from it. It has a springwound phonograph but it is wound by an electric motor. The same electric motor drives the changer mechanism. The springwound mechanism was made for the poor electricity supply at that time - to keep the speed straight.

There are several models of Orchestrope known like: Club, Commercial (wide), Commercial (high), Commercial 28 as 28-F, (perhaps 28-G) and 28-GB, Auditorium with a separate Orchestrope Speaker, Aristocrat without coin slot, Home and the "Park" with a separate speaker cabinet, Speaker 600.
In March 1930 came a less expensive Amperion line with a simple turning changer, followed by models with the drop-type only "10-12" mechanism in 1931. The main success was later the changer 16-E etc. - see more details and summaries here.

Hier finden Sie 262 Modelle, davon 153 mit Bildern und 119 mit Schaltbildern.
Alle gelisteten Radios usw. von Capehart Corp.; Fort Wayne, IN - see also Farnsworth