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Walter Eckhardt, John Herzog, and the Columbia "Symphony Grand" : "On This Day in Phonographic History..."


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On This Day in Phonographic History..."

 

June 5, 1907: John Herzog filed for a U.S. Design Patent (eventually granted as No.38,669) for “Phonograph Cabinet.” This would be marketed as the Columbia “Symphony Grand,” the company’s first internal-horn talking machine.

 

June 7, 1907: Walter Eckhardt filed for a U.S. patent for a “Cabinet for Talking Machines.”  This patent focused on the construction and method of record storage of what would become Columbia’s first internal-horn machine (thereafter called a Grafonola), the “Symphony Grand.”  Although this first Grafonola was in the style of an upright piano, Columbia pioneered the disguising of talking machines as tables and baby grand pianos.

 

July 9, 1907: John Herzog was granted U.S. Design Patent No.38,669 for “Phonograph Cabinet.”

 

November 10, 1908: Walter Eckhardt was granted a U.S. patent (No.903,364) for a “Cabinet for Talking Machines.” 

 

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