Our Sawdust Sirens are old style acoustic amplifiers for your new phone's speaker. Simply put your phone in and have a listen.

Calling themselves the “Vagabonds,” Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs, made yearly ‘camping trips’ starting in 1915.  They toured the Everglades, drove down the California coast, visited the Adirondacks and Green Mountains, the Great Smokies, the Catskills, Michigan, stopped by to see President Coolidge at his home in Vermont, and hosted President Harding for a weekend.

Each year, their trips would become more extravagant – by 1919, they were up to 50 chauffeured cars, including a custom designed kitchen car with full catering capabilities and Edison’s mobile electric generator, as well as personal tents embossed with their names, and a slew of staff, including photographers and a film crew.

This “Standard” Edison Phonograph Horn has 10 convex petals and its original decal. Siren #219 stands approximately 31” tall with a 18” bell (the whole piece is about 35” tall x 18” x 19” deep). This type of horn would have been used with an Edison cylinder phonograph with a support crane. The base is made from reclaimed walnut and finished with Betty’s Board Butter (beeswax & mineral oil). You may wish to re-oil your base occasionally. Each Siren is signed on the bottom of the base with the siren # and name.

If your phone has stereo options you may want to play around with mono and stereo settings to see which you prefer.

Vagabond now lives with our friend John Bellomo.