Loudspeaker
cabinet with electrodynamic loudspeaker
In oak cabinet in the style of the
Amsterdam School with coromandel detail at the bottom of
the front.
Front with cut-out geometric shapes with the letter "M"
in the middle.
Made at A. Brandsteder, 3e Schinkelstraat 33A,
Amsterdam.
Inside the cabinet was a Magnavox 254 loudspeaker that
does not belong in this piece of furniture, instead
a
Magnavox 404 excited loudspeaker with a metal rectifier
belongs there.
The Magnavox 404 loudspeaker with on the left the mains
transformer, and on the right a metal rectifier and an
electrolytic capacitor.
Listen to "Adieu,
we moeten elkander groeten (We will have to say goodbye)"
by the Odeon
Dance Orchestra,
sung by
Louis van
de Sande, recorded in 1929
The Famet
loudspeaker
Famet is a brand name of the German Metallwarenfabrik Melber
& Co AG from Lämmerspiel bei Offenbach am
Main. The loudspeaker was sold in the Netherlands as a
do-it-yourself kit by Technische Industrie N.V. in Amsterdam
and as "Avrofoon" kit by Nijkerks Radio, Amsterdam.
The back of the
cabinet
On the left the loudspeaker
excitation unit with cuprox rectifier, made by Undy; in
the middle the Famet loudspeaker. In the left hand
corner, behind the Undy unit, a 3000 uF condenser made
by Nijkerk's Radio, Amsterdam.
The Undy cuprox
rectifier used in the excitation unit for the Famet
loudspeaker.
Nijkrolite 3000 mFd condenser,
made bij Nijkerk's Radio, Amsterdam
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