Looking at these amazing portable gramophones from the 1920s, you can’t help but think Swiss Army Knife, especially the Mikiphone (below) which folded out from a case the “size of a large pocket watch or a small cheese case.” The website has a couple of other crazy-cool portables, more pics of these two, even sound-samples of the Mikiphone in action. The Mikiphone is especially innovative because of its use of a resonator mounted on the tone-arm, instead of a sound horn. Speaking of horns, check out the four-sided leather jobby on the “Gipsy” (above) and the stirrup that holds it in place.
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