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The Thorens Excelda gramophone, 1937-45 was ultra portable, built tough, and needed no power source (wind up motor). It is smaller than the first portable cassette players of the 70’s, and similar size to many of today’s portable bluetooth speakers. The Excelda is smaller than any boombox, 70’s to today.
The Excelda was a popular war time device because of the small compact size and design. There was no bulky horn, the metal case acted as the speaker, loud enough to entertain a small party.
There were also ‘suitcase’ style gramophones from the 20’s that were the same size and just as portable as the suitcase record players of the 60’s-70’s, not any bigger then some of the early 70’s boomboxes, and also played without power source (wind up motor).
This is great info! I’m going to see if I can integrate into the Science of Rock’n’Roll museum exhibit that’s coming to the Ontario Science Centre next month.