Auxiliary dynamic speaker 200 for Orchestrope

Capehart Corp.; Fort Wayne, IN - see also Farnsworth

  • Year
  • 1928/1929
  • Category
  • Loudspeaker, headphone or earphone
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 226116

 Technical Specifications

  • Wave bands
  • - without
  • Power type and voltage
  • Alternating Current supply (AC) / for field: 60 cycles (separate order for 25 or 50 cycles), 110 Volt
  • Loudspeaker
  • Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil)
  • Material
  • Wooden case
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: Auxiliary dynamic speaker 200 for Orchestrope - Capehart Corp.; Fort Wayne, IN
  • Shape
  • Tablemodel, high profile (upright - NOT Cathedral nor decorative).
  • Notes
  • Model 200 Capehart Auxiliary Dynamic Speaker
    The ad for the model reads: "Designed and built primarily for hotels, clubs, lodges, restaurants and other business needing good music in different rooms or placess, all from one source, the CAPEHART AUTOMATIC ORCHESTROPE."

    The Orchestrope:
    The coin operated machine is capable of holding 28 records. There is no selection. It is a continuous play of the slack in place, all 56 sides. In those pioneering days, Capehart favored a changer that drags records across the mechanism, to get them to the turntable, and away from it. It has a springwound phonograph but it is wound by an electric motor. The same electric motor drives the changer mechanism. The springwound mechanism was made for the poor electricity supply at that time - to keep the speed straight.

    There are several models of Orchestrope known like: Club, Commercial (wide), Commercial (high), Commercial 28 as 28-F, (perhaps 28-G) and 28-GB, Auditorium with a separate Orchestrope Speaker, Aristocrat without coin slot, Home and the "Park" with a separate speaker cabinet, Speaker 600.
    In March 1930 came a less expensive Amperion line with a simple turning changer, followed by models with the drop-type only "10-12" mechanism in 1931. The main success was later the changer 16-E etc. - see more details and summaries here.

  • Author
  • Model page created by Ernst Erb. See "Data change" for further contributors.

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