Gramophone, HMV 102 portable, 78 rpm

This is a very nice HMV 102 portable in green playing Rocco's Boogie Woogie by Maurice Rocco

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Music

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• Gramophone
• 78
• rpm
• Phonograph
• Music

[qcern]

I have a Gramophone almost like this one and it's still working

[Gypsymojo]

Hi, They are the best portable ever made, that said the Columbia #9000 is exactly the same machine with minor changes, needle holder and hinges and can be picked up cheaper. Regards Marcel

[pyestudiocolour]

I have a 102 in black (a 1946 model) and I agree these were the best sounding portable gramophones ever available. I'd love to come across a coloured one (or two). Certainly my favourite gramophone!

[qcern]

I'll make soon a video with pictures and a song from a disk and post it on youtube and i'll give you the address.

[grahard]

A truly great performer sadly underated. This remains among the best Boogie Woogie solos ever recorded - it can be viewed in the 1943 movie "Incendiary Blond" starring Betty Hutton. Rocco spent his later years in Asia, finally in Bangkok where he suffered an untimely death in 1976.