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Post by Whi$tlin' Pete on Dec 18, 2004 0:26:27 GMT -5
You are probably wondering whaaa??? This is the oldest record I am familiar with. If you look it up in Billboard's Pop Memories book, this song spent 6 weeks at number 1 in 1910. (Let's see you post a link for this song Reception!) I have this song on '78 rpm. It's an Irish song, and does have a nice tune to it. The record plays nicely for its age. The price printed on the record label is 75 cents. Seems pretty steep for 1910. It's actually my father's record. He got it in 1945 when he bought a Victrola machine with several records included, for a whopping 50 cents. Dad's Victrola broke in the late 60's or early 70's just before or after the time I was born. Last Christmas, I did a little research online and found out it was built in 1917 and also found out where I could buy some replacement wind up springs for it. I bought him the springs for Christmas. He and I disassembled the Victrola, replaced the springs, greased and oiled up the mechanism, and fired it up. Dad was happy to see it run again. I must say I was impressed myself.
I found it fascinating to work on. It's very simplistic. Just the turntable, the wind up springs, with a governor to regulate the speed, and a start and stop lever. The tone arm turn hollow and gets longer and wider and runs underneath the turntable. That's how the sound is amplified. The volume is controlled simply by opening and closing the doors on the front of the machine! No electricity since it is spring driven. Pretty neat, Huh?
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Post by mms82 on Mar 23, 2022 14:07:48 GMT -5
that's so cool! do you have a video?
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Post by mms82 on Mar 23, 2022 14:08:21 GMT -5
realized this post is almost 20 years old so probably not lol
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