Past the Berliner, we see a wall of assorted cylinder machines, including several with the Polyphone attachment. This dual reproducer/horn setup was provided to increase the volume of the record.
Next to the cylinder machines, we find a variety of disc phonographs. Of particular interest is the machine on the bottom shelf all the way on the right (shown in larger size in the photo on the right). This machine's decal reads "Edison Disc Graphophone", and it plays 'standard' (lateral) 78's. Edison never made a machine that only played lateral discs, and the Edison company had NO relationship with the Graphophone, a product of the Columbia Phonograph Company. This machine is obviously a forgery, but what makes it interesting is that it's a period forgery, that is from the first quarter of the century! Some fly-by-night company thought they would cash in on the popularity of these then-well-known names.
From the main room, we move in to the rear room which houses a variety of coin operated phonographs, including the Edison Excelsior (center), and the Edison Bijou (right).
In addition to these single-cylinder coin-ops, we also have multi-cylinder coin-operated machines...the first jukeboxes! Note that the machine on the right is one of only a couple surviving examples of its type, and for a nickle, you can select from 25 different cylinders!
