Hello There were many coin-op manufacturers in Germany with Mammut & Parlophone being probably the largest, but a lot of other smaller companies as well. Available as table top as well as floor standing. Not to mention the coin ops that were disguised as beer barrels (hymnophone) or a windmill. Symphonion (of music box fame) also made some floor standing models with huge coiled horns. The coin ops were either half or fully automatic, or somewhere inbetween. Half automats where the coin started the motor and a person had to place the reproducer on the disk, and the fully automatics all was needed was the coin to activate and the phono did the rest. And in the middle was a type where a person put the reproducer on the record but the machine automatically lifted it off at the end of the record. Here is a pic of a popular parlophone model http://www.romfi.com/category.cfm?Category=8%21A%5D%23X%3C8DPWL%2FR%3C%28%27%3D%5FT%2C%5F1RLM0%3EJ%2B%2CH7%0A&CFID=43787&CFTOKEN=65440570&review=%21%23L%3F%22%0A and here a small manufacturer from 1910 with a catalog of 10 models, 3 of which are coin ops http://www.romfi.com/category.cfm?Category=4%21A%5D%23X%3C8DPWX%2FSL%24%2D8%5E4%28%5EABGJPI%2E%0A&CFID=43787&CFTOKEN=65440570 regards Rob On 7/8/07, Phonophan at aol.com <Phonophan at aol.com> wrote: > > Hi, Art----- I've seen a lot of these in my travels, please send me the > images directly and I'll help you if I can. Cheers, > > Tim Fabrizio > phonophan > PO Box 747 > Henrietta, NY 14467 > > TEL 585 582 1586 > FAX 585 582 2624 > Web site: www.phonophan.com > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org >