Rytm gramophone

Description

The *Rytm* electrical gramophone was developed in response to the growing needs of the musical market in terms of devices for the playback of gramophone records. They grew in importance in the wake of the thaw and cultural changes after the period of heavy-handed Stalinist indoctrination of Poland in the early 1950s. The *Rytm* is one of early examples of devices of this type designed in the post-war period. Enclosed in a veneer wood housing, without a built-in amplifier, the tabletop *Rytm* gramophone slides out of its body on the lowering of a semi-circular front cover – hence its nickname of the “bread box”. Manufacturer: Zakłady Metalowe im. Józefa Stalina w Poznaniu, 1957 Inv no.: MIM174/V-22 Model prepared on the basis of photogrammetric measurements Licence: CC BY-NC-SA