odeon: Odeon Paracelsus

In ancient Greece Odeon was a mostly round theatre for song and music performances. In 1903 the International Talking Machine Company was founded by two Germans to produce records with the Odeon building as a symbol.

The Swede Carl Lindström in 1896 started a factory in Berlin and was very successful in selling simple low cost phonographs. In the beginning of the 1900s he produced gramophones and records named Parlophon. In 1911 he bought some minor German factories, for example Beka and Odeon.  In 1931 Odeon became a part of the Electric and Musical Industries Ltd EMI which was formed by Columbia and HMV. Odeon was a wellknown brand in Sweden with many popular artists like Ernst Rolf, Zarah Leander and Sven-Olov Sandberg.

My gramophone is named Odeon Paracelsus, after an important physician, philosopher, theologist and mystisician who died in Salzburg 1541. My wifes parents bought this gramophone in Jönköping some time in the 1930s and played records when having parties for relatives and friends. It was a high quality machine and is still working very well.

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