Golborne Vintage Radio

I was checking out a turntable, ahead of offering it for sale at Retrotech. It's a Pioneer PL-400X with (I think) an Audio-Technica cartridge. I grabbed a record that I don't ever recall playing before and it sounded lovely.

We all know "His Master's Voice" and I've seen "Le voix de son maitre" on French HMV discs. I've never seen the Spanish version before. "La voz de su amo". My wife, who knows some Spanish, assures me that this reads as it seems: "The voice of his friend". A cultural difference between countries in how the relationship between man and dog is seen.

Ironic the dog was dead when the phonograph was repainted to a gramophone!

(10-05-2026, 11:06 AM)ppppenguin Wrote: [ -> ]My wife, who knows some Spanish, assures me that this reads as it seems: "The voice of his friend". A cultural difference between countries in how the relationship between man and dog is seen.

Yet Bing has this to say:

I think my wife was caught out by a bit of colloquial Spanish. "Amo" on its own usually means love or friend. Looking at "su amo" it seems to be the usual term to describe the relationship between pet and owner. So "master" or "owner" would both be reasonable translations.

I have actually handled the famous gramophone, sometime around 1986 in the EMI archives.