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The instrument with the human voice
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Title:
The instrument with the human voice
NFSA ID
490732
Year
1910
Home Recreations LD, 388 George St, sold the Australian designed and made Salonola, 'The Instrument with the Human Voice'.
The "Salonola", the instrument with the human voice
A high-grade instrument. An Australian invention of which musical circles insist that for tone, quality and reproduction of any class of music, it surpasses all imported talking machines.
Easy to play! Easy to pay! Prices from 10 to 100 guineas. Terms, from 2s 6d weekly.
Home Recreations Ld (in which is incorporated the business of Heiron and Smith, LD), exclusive propietors to the world's rights of that most distinctive of all Talking Machines, "The Salonola"
Invented in Australia and manufactured solely by Home Recreations Ld, 388 George St (Opp Beard Watson's), Sydney. Tel. City 6417
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