Monopol Upright Piano Disc player with 30 note comb by Paul Ehrlich - 1890's

A rare smaller Monopol Manivelle type disc player in good working order with a lovely rich tone.
It needed a good clean, the drive cog required adjusting, the handle needed to be straightened and the top needed new, longer, brass screws. It came with 18 - size 33 or 7 ½" discs (from a plaque on another example)
Tunes include: Killarney, Bonnie Dundee, Ye Banks & Braes' Valse Bleu, La Matrehicho, Annie Laurie, Robin Adair, Once We Were Sweethearts, Sweet Rosie O'Grady, The Harp that Once, Laughing Water, The Togo, Just One Girl, The Absent Minded Barber

Killarney

Bonnie Dundee

Disc Players

8" Edelweiss disc player

Bought at auction October 2023
A good condition Edelweiss mechanism set into a beautifully inlaid case
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Thorens AD30 4.5" disc player

36 note disc player bought with five discs included. The tone is not as rich as a cylinder musical box or polyphon.
The clasp was missing from the lid, but I managed to find an exact replacement.
I have since acquired nearly 100 discs and a box to keep them all in.
I have a few duplicate discs for sale. See Sales page for more details.

Instrument box converted to store Thorens discs

Thorens 4½" Manivelle Disc Player

Bought at auction in February 2025, a Manivelle version of the box above playing the same size discs as the clockwork AD30 but with a hand wound movement. The discs can be played with the lid open, or closed.

Symphonion 8¼" (21cm) disc player with diagonal split combs of 30 teeth each
​Serial no. 265607

​Bought privately from a local lady, Rosemary Lee.
It first belonged to her grandfather, Frederick Hay, and passed on to her father, Frederick Hay 2nd.
​Her family are not interested in inheriting it, so aren't I the lucky one?
However, I don't think it's been cleaned in her lifetime, though someone has painted the bedplate - and a lot of other things without taking it apart! Yuk!

See it in the workshop