[Phono-L] Metal horns lost to salvage drives

Andrew Baron andy at popyrus.com
Sun Jan 20 10:15:11 PST 2008


I've often heard that many of the metal horns were turned in during  
the WWII scrap metal drives.  If this is the case, then it may be that  
more were lost to salvage efforts than to damage.  One can imagine,  
what a loss to us today this must represent.  Inevitably there would  
have been some real treasures with hand-painted effects panels,  
special finishes, solid brass Zonophone horns, etc.
Andy

On Jan 20, 2008, at 6:27 AM, Bob wrote:
> ...As the outside horn machines lost favor in the 1920's the owners  
> were less concerned about protecting them from their kids and a lot  
> were damaged, destroyed or lost.
> RMV.


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