Menuet radio-gramophone

The Menuet type 6204 vacuum tube radio was produced in 1961-1965 in Dzierżoniów. It is a middle-class, AC-powered, seven-circuit superheterodyne, equipped with five vacuum tubes and two germanium diodes, designed to receive radio stations and play back recordings from gramophone records. Thanks to the built-in ferrite antenna and sockets for plugging in an external aerial, regular and UHF, the tuner is designed to receive long, medium, short and ultra-high frequency wave bands. The name “menuet” relates to a French folk dance (Eng.: minuet) and the musical form based on its beat. The oval housing made of wood, plywood and veneer chipboard contains two compartments of different volumes – the lower one houses the radio equipment, and the upper one, which is flat and closed with a cover on a spring-loaded support, contains the GE-56 electrical gramophone. Manufacturer: Zakłady Radiowe Diora, 1961-1965 Inv. No.: MIM 60/V-13 Model prepared on the basis of photogrammetric measurements Licence: CC BY-NC-SA