Lioret No 2 Phonograph
Lioret No 2 phonograph in its case with thirteen celluloid cylinders of various sizes. The celluloid horn is a (good) replacement - it is too clean to be an original - but this is the usual case with this model! The case is missing the instructions which should be on the inside of the front flap of the case. Henri Lioret was a clockmaker who entered the talking machine market by accident at the age of forty-five. A friend asked him if he could make his beautiful thirty inch doll made by Emile Jameau speak. Lioret had seen the talking machines of Tainter and Edison at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris and realised that the Edison dolls failed because their cylinders could not be changed and they were anyway far too fragile. He invented an unbreakable celluloid cylinder which he patented in 1893 and the taking Bébé was born. It was an immediate success and he followed this with his Lioret No 2 phonograph which he developed from 1895. Probably the finest engineered phonograph ever built the Lioret No 2 was the product of his clock making skills. The early models used butterfly governors like musical boxes, as in this example. All Lioret phonographs are rare. Case size 15" (38 cm) x 10" (25.5 cm) x 7.25" (18.5 cm)
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