Busy Bee Graphophone

Columbia Phonograph, American / Volta Graphophone Company; USA

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  • Year
  • 1904–1907
  • Category
  • Talking machine - Mechanical Gramophone/Phonograph 
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 226782
    • alternative name: American Graphophone || Columbia Recording

 Technical Specifications

  • Wave bands
  • - without
  • Power type and voltage
  • Solar- and/or muscle driven, also addl. power jack possible
  • Loudspeaker
  • Horn
  • Material
  • Metal case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: Busy Bee Graphophone - Columbia Phonograph, American
  • Shape
  • Tablemodel, with any shape - general.
  • Dimensions (WHD)
  • 7.5 x 0 x 4.5 inch / 191 x 0 x 114 mm
  • Notes

  • The Busy Bee Graphophone was manufactured by Columbia and marketed by the O'Neill-James Company of Chicago. It is exactly like Columbia's Type Q Graphophone except the mandrel is slightly larger diameter and it has a Busy Bee decal on the base. Columbia also produced special Busy Bee cylinder records with a slightly larger bore that fit onto this mandrel and provided them to O'Neill-James Company. Standard sized Edison, Columbia, and other brand cylinder records would not fit onto the Busy Bee mandrel, forcing owners to purchase only Busy Bee records.

  • Price in first year of sale
  • 7.50 USD
  • Author
  • Model page created by Jürgen Bauch. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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